Reverend Jesse Jackson's  influence and legacy has spread far and wide but his roots are in the Carolinas. He was born in ...
On “The Final 5,” Jim Lokay spoke with Dr. James Peterson about the death of civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson and the legacy he leaves behind. Peterson said Jackson’s lasting impact was his ...
Jesse Jackson’s upbringing in SC shaped his mission for justice and propelled him to work for causes in his home state ...
The American civil rights icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson, died on Feb. 17 at the age of 84. His advisor, James Zogby, a ...
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, has spent the last 60 years of his ...
The young man is the civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. The stoop is on the set of “Sesame Street,” in 1972. The ...
An ordained Baptist minister, Rev. Jesse Jackson championed a campaign to unify faith groups around common social ills, Black ...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson had a long relationship with Detroit and Michigan, which its politicians and faith leaders remembered ...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, America’s most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of the Rev. Dr ...
We were never alone,” his daughter Santita Jackson said. The community surrounded the young leader in every way, helping the ...
• The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died at age 84. His son, Jesse Jackson Jr., told CNN that ...
His success in the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries ushered in a new era in Democratic Party politics.