Jackson, a Greenville native, was one of eight Black students to stage a sit-in at the whites-only Greenville County Public ...
A proclamation from the Eugene V. Debs Foundation in autumn of 1978 praised the Rev. Jesse Jackson for his candid style. The organization — based in Debs’ hometown of Terre Haute — had chosen Jackson ...
Young people who watched his historic campaigns or learned about his career became activists, clergy members, civic leaders ...
The civil rights trailblazer imagined a future for America in which the marginalized became the center of US politics ...
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the wishes of a civil rights icon’s family for a final honor.
The speaker looked to precedent where lying in state or honor in the Capitol has been reserved for former presidents, ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson denied the request, citing past precedent over how the deaths of other high-profile figures were ...
Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., whose impassioned plea to “Keep hope alive!” buoyed Black America through transformative political, social and economic campaigns over a seven-decade career in public ...
Rev. Jesse Jackson was at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated there.
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