Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., Civil Rights Leader, Dies
Jesse Jackson participating in a rally, January 15, 1975 (Photo Thomas O’Halloran, Library of Congress)
Rev. Jesse Jackson (right) spoke several times at USHLI’s national conference. (USHLI photo)
From left: The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. speaks during an event for his 1984 presidential campaign as Jesse Jackson Jr. and D.C. Mayor Marion Barry look on. (WI photo)
Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson, then president of Rainbow PUSH Coalition, speaks at an event in Washington, D.C., in 2021. Politicians, faith leaders and activists are remembering Jackson, who died on Feb. 17. (Courtesy, Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the son of segregated Greenville, South Carolina, who rose from the red clay of the Jim Crow South to become what admirers called the “Conscience of the Nation,” has died at 84. While his death closes a chapter on more than half a century of agitation, negotiation, and unrelenting public witness on behalf of the poor, the marginalized, and the overlooked, family, faith l…
