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"Civil Rights and Liberties",
"Black People",
"Primaries and Caucuses",
"Nineteen Hundred Eighties",
"Civil Rights Movement (1954-68)",
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"textContent": "The Rev. Jesse Jackson entered the national spotlight during the civil rights movement and ran for president twice. He also courted controversy while in the public eye.",
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