The Rev. Jesse Jackson, pioneering civil rights activist, dies at 84

I had the great honor of knowing long time Lansing builder and Michigan State trustee Joel Ferguson. He ran Rev. Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign in Michigan. Much to the media's great shock Jackson won the state.

Some of the tactics used were questionable and basically looked like shakedowns for pushing the corporate targets to donate to his entities which then softened his stance around the alleged suboptimal civil rights situations.