Rev. Jesse Jackson had three sons and three daughters ...

Look back at the late Rev. Jesse Jackson's most memorable quotes, from Democratic National Convention speeches and more.

The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died, a Rainbow Push Coalition spokesperson confirmed ...

The Reverend Jesse Jackson passed away this week at the age of eighty-four years old. A national figure and leader in civil ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died this week, ran for president twice, leading more Black voters to register. The year after his second run, a Black mayor, David Dinkins, won in New York.

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and ...

Jesse Jackson, second from right, singing “We Shall Overcome” with the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, left, the Rev. Dr.

The young man is the civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. The stoop is on the set of “Sesame Street,” in 1972. The ...

Mr. Jackson’s presidential campaigns created a pathway for scores of Black Democrats to run for office, with many making ...

“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson intoned in 1984 during his address at the Democratic National Convention in ...

Mr. Jackson, who spent much of his life in the city, died at his home there on Tuesday. “He ushered in new politics in ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson entered the national spotlight during the civil rights movement and ran for president twice. He also ...