Jesse Jackson’s Wardrobe Was Also the Message

Ms. Givhan is a contributing Opinion writer.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was always a standout in the way he dressed. But whom he dressed for, and why, are what made him exceptional.

By 2008, when he was an elder statesman in the fight for social justice tearily celebrating Barack Obama’s election, Mr. Jackson looked like most of the gray-haired men who’d entered the ring in the 1960s........

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