The Protégé Who Carried MLK's Work: Top Photos

Jesse Jackson's family carries his six-decade civil rights legacy forward after his death at 84.

Jesse Jackson, then-president of the Student Government, in the 1964 edition of Ayantee, a yearbook produced by North Carolina A&T.
Jesse Jackson as student government president at North Carolina A&T in 1964, a year before Martin Luther King Jr. noticed his preternatural confidence during the Selma marches and recruited him for the movement. © North Carolina A&T, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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