‘One of America’s greatest patriots’: US political leaders pay tribute to Jesse Jackson

Kamala Harris, Al Sharpton, Donald Trump and more react to the death of the civil rights leader at the age of 84

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Political leaders have celebrated Jesse Jackson as a “titan” of the civil rights movement after the announcement on Tuesday of his death at the age of 84.

Al Sharpton, the veteran civil rights campaigner who Jackson worked closely with after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, called his friend and mentor “a consequential and transformative leader who changed this nation and the world”.