• HARTFORD 11/4/99 First District Congresman John Larson ( left ) shares a moment with Rev. Jesse Jackson ( right) during President Clinton visits to The Artist Collective in HArtford Thusday evening. (Courant Photo by Marc Yves Regis I )

• (from left to right) Connecticut President of NAACP Jimmy Griffin talks with Rev. Jesse Jackson while they block an intersection during a protest Monday morning in New Haven . They were supporting striking Yale University workers. (Woman in red is unidentified. ) Courant Photo by Marc-Yves Regis I

• HARTFORD, CT – 08.08.06 – Jesse Jackson and Al Shartpon talk politics and voting, specifically their support of Connecticut candidates Ned Lamont and John Destefano, from a studio in Hartford’s WKND. PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK MIRKO. ORG XMIT: 0011219A

• 04/26/00 — Wallingford, Ct, — Before going inside St. Paul’s Episcopal Church to attend a prayer service in honor of Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson (L) meets with group of people protesting Wallingford’s observence of Martin Luther King Day as a town holiday. Mike Akia, (R), 25-year-old Wallingford citizen and representative of the national Knights of the Ku Klux klan was one of about 50-people protesting the holiday. Jackson led a candle light vigil walk of about 250 people down Wallingford’s Center Street to town hall where Jackson addressed the crowd. Courant photograph by Mark Mirko.

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HARTFORD 11/4/99 First District Congresman John Larson ( left ) shares a moment with Rev. Jesse Jackson ( right) during President Clinton visits to The Artist Collective in HArtford Thusday evening. (Courant Photo by Marc Yves Regis I )

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