Follow latest updates as public figures praise civil rights leader who was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for Democratic presidential nomination ...
Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, died ...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson entered the national spotlight during the civil rights movement and ran for president twice. He also ...
Jesse Jackson, one of the world's best-known Black activists who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died at the age of ...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights leader, minister, and politician, who was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr ...
An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and ...
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, has spent the last 60 years of his ...
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday, made many visits to Sacramento and Northern California.
“Jesse Jackson is one of the very most significant political leaders in this country in the last 100 years,” declared Senator Bernie Sanders, summarizing the importance of Jackson’s remarkable life ...
My religion obligates me to be political, but my politics don’t obligate me to be religious,” said Jackson — frequently ...
This week, the world is mourning a true pioneer in Rev. Jesse Jackson, who passed away on Tuesday morning at the age of 84.