Young people who watched his historic campaigns or learned about his career became activists, clergy members, civic leaders and lawmakers.

Jesse Jackson will lie in state later this week at his Rainbow PUSH headquarters in Chicago. And, if there is anybody who deserves to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol for all of America to honor, ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R La., has denied a request to allow the late Rev. Jesse Jackson to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda following the civil rights leader’s death at age 84. Jackson’s ...

Charles H. King Jr., a renowned Civil Rights leader, died 35 years ago in Atlanta, Georgia. “Fire In My Bones,” his 1983 ...