Jackson's presidential runs in 1984 and 1988 played a significant role in shaping the modern Democratic Party. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights leader who bridged the era of Martin Luther King Jr. with the modern world and whose two presidential runs in the 1980s set the stage for today’s progressive movement, died early Tuesday, his family announced . He was 84. “Our father was a servant leader ― not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the