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The president of the National Urban League recalls his long friendship with Jackson.
By the time he ran again four years later, Mr. Jackson wanted to build a serious campaign. He had spent years registering millions of new Black voters and built a fresh kind of multiracial Democratic coalition that included progressive white voters and people of color.