Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson mourned, celebrated in Bay Area after death

During his groundbreaking presidential bid in 1984, the Rev. Jesse Jackson kissed babies in San Jose, spoke at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and marched with 100 residents of an Oakland housing project to the boundary of a polling place.

“There comes a point that leaders can’t take you any farther and you must go on your own,” he was quoted by United Press International as saying during the 1984 march.

That kind of retail campaigning was typical. What wasn’t typical was Jackson himself...