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Jesse Jackson

Fern Britton travels to America to meet one of its best-known political figures, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, a civil rights campaigner who has twice run for president.

Fern Britton travels to America to meet one of its best-known political figures, the Reverend Jesse Jackson. He is an outspoken civil rights campaigner, and has run for President twice. While Jackson's supporters say he paved the way for Barack Obama, others have accused him of being divisive. But there is no denying that he has lived up to his catchphrase for the oppressed: "I am somebody".

1 hour

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Presenter Fern Britton
Producer Jonathan Mayo

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