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Daniel Knowles, our Midwest correspondent, on why the civil-rights fight feels newly urgent
The Republican-led House said Jesse Jackson cannot lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol. The NAACP criticized the decision.
I am somebody because the reverend told me I was. And I believed him.
In 1999, Jesse Jackson flew to Yugoslavia to help free three US soldiers captured during the Kosovo War.
In 1977, Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke to young Black students in Los Angeles, spreading a message of self-help and building their confidence. "Down with d...
Tributes poured in from politicians who described Jackson as an agent of change and transformative leader.
President Trump posted on social media about civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson's death, calling him "a good man" and "a force of nature like few ...
The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84, his family said on Tuesday. Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the se...
The civil rights leader, who ran for president twice in the 1980s, leaves a lasting legacy.
From January 4, 1984, the "CBS Evening News" reports on Jesse Jackson's successful effort to secure the release of Lt. Robert Goodman from Syria after...
