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Civil rights leader and political activist Jesse Jackson at a politicalrally in 1984. For more than four decades, Jackson has remainedamong the most prominent, politically active, and eloquentrepresentatives of what he has termed a “Rainbow Coalition”of the poor, African Americans, and other minorities.Participant in a demonstration by NativeAmericans in Washington, D.C., in 1978.They also have sought to assert their rightsand identity in recent decades.Oil fires burn behind a destroyed Iraqitank at the conclusion of the GulfWar in February 1991. The UnitedStates led a coalition of more than 30nations in an air and ground campaigncalled Desert Storm that ended Iraq’soccupation of Kuwait.252 253