The civil rights trailblazer imagined a future for America in which the marginalized became the center of US politics The civil rights trailblazer imagined a future for America in which the marginalized became the center of US politics R everend Jesse Jackson , the civil- and human-rights trailblazer who died on 17 February, imagined a version of America where the marginalized became the center. His was a much more progressive vision than what the Democratic party thought possible after the