Mourners to begin paying respect to Rev. Jackson at Rainbow PUSH. Those wishing to honor the Reverend Jesse Jackson are expected to line up outside the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, whe ...

There is little marking Jackson’s ties to Greenville, SC, and its larger civil rights history today, but leaders and elders ...

Clinton highlights Jackson’s compassion during his impeachment, urging others to lift and support loved ones in times of ...

Santita Jackson thanked Gov. Henry McMaster for the honor. The Republican governor approved the family’s request after the office of U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson denied a similar request that ...

First known as the wife of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she later became an avid proselytizer for his vision of peace ...

What shall it be to a state, that he opens his gates upon him with open arms, when him once he had closed the gates of her life? Thousands of people in Columbia assembled into a long, slow moving line ...

Several thousand citizens made their way to Columbia Monday as South Carolina held memorial services in the state's capital ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr. was honored Monday in the state where he grew up under ...

Mourners circled the Statehouse on Monday to honor the Rev. Jesse Jackson and say “thank you” to a civil rights icon whose activism for equality began in the Palmetto State.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is returning to South Carolina for a final public farewell. Jackson will lie in state at the Capitol in Columbia on Monday. The tribute contrasts ...