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Jesse Jackson’s Legacy and Impact on Civil Rights Remembered

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New York, Feb 18 (IANS) Jesse Jackson ranked in the lineage of civil rights and anti-racism icons like his mentor Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, who were inspired by Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was the “spiritual godfather” of leaders like them, Jackson said in his keynote address at an event for the 60th anniversary of the martyrdom of the prophet of Satyagraha in 2008 in New Delhi.Jackson, who died on Tuesday, was a fighter for civil rights in the US, carrying on the peaceful battle that Ki…