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Jesse Jackson to discuss voting with Georgia Tech students

The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks Thursday, July 28, 2016 to the Florida delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. (George Bennett/The Palm Beach Post)
The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks Thursday, July 28, 2016 to the Florida delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. (George Bennett/The Palm Beach Post)
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Oct 20, 2016

Longtime civil rights activist Jesse Jackson is scheduled to visit Georgia Tech’s campus Thursday morning to discuss voting rights and this year’s presidential race.

Jackson is planning a roundtable discussion with student leaders at 11 a.m. at the Georgia Tech Student Center, at 350 Ferst Dr. in Atlanta.

“If Dr. King and Rev. Lowery and Ralph David Abernathy can fight for the right to vote, the millennial generation who inherited those rights and privileges cannot give them up,” Jackson said in a statement. “Young people must use their vote. If we all do our part as a community, we will win Georgia and change the course of America for the better.”

Jackson, who ran in 1984 and 1988 for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, has endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton for president.

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