Jesse Jackson says claims that he and Martin Luther King fell out are overblown.

There's been a long held belief that Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King, Jr. had issues with each other back in the day. It's a claim that's been brought up in a new book on MLK.

On Monday, Rev Jackson spoke out about what some believe was a bitter split between he and Dr. King. Speaking to reporters after a breakfast held by his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to commemorate King's birthday, Jackson denied that King accused him of trying to use the movement to promote himself. That claim was made in historian Taylor Branch's book "At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68," which was released last week.

Asked about the passage in question, Jackson said King and his colleagues argued frequently about strategy but always came to a consensus afterward.

"We often had challenging meetings," he said. "And that was what we did. But in the end we left there together."

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