Jackson would go on to become an American civil and human rights icon; an influential politician and presidential candidate; ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson was at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated ...

Memorial services honoring the life of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will be expanded beyond Chicago with events in Washington, ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

In 1968, Jackson witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., while standing with him on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. CBS News Chicago spoke with him 50 years later about his memories ...

Jesse Jackson: Civil rights icon who built on mentor Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy and inspired a generation - OBITUARY: The ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson denied the request, citing past precedent over how the deaths of other high-profile figures were ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a pivotal civil rights leader who fought alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and ran for president, has ...

Leader of the civil rights movement with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and candidate for president, will be forever ...

A new documentary explores the uprising on the city's West Side following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

Famed civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson has died. Jackson, 84, marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and later ...

Washington, D.C., is remembering the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who died Tuesday at 84.