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How Jesse Jackson set the stage for Bernie Sanders and today’s progressives

By Bert Johnson, Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
Jesse Jackson’s two campaigns for president, in 1984 and 1988, were unsuccessful but historic. The civil rights activist and organizer, who died on Feb. 17, 2026, helped pave the way for Barack Obama’s election a generation later as the nation’s first – and so far only – African…The Conversation


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