Jesse Jackson Memorial Services Held

Jesse Jackson, a revered civil rights leader, died on February 17 at the age of 84 after battling a neurological disorder. His passing has prompted a series of memorial services across the United States. United States===South Carolina, his birth state, is holding full state honors at the United States===South Carolina Statehouse, where his body lay in repose. This follows a public viewing at his Rainbow PUSH Coalition's United States===Chicago headquarters. Further services are planned for United States===Chicago, with a Washington, D.C., event postponed. Jackson's career began with a sit-in at a segregated library in Greenville, United States===South Carolina, and he later joined Martin Luther King Jr.'s voting rights march. He became a torchbearer for the Civil Rights Movement after King's assassination, advocating for voting rights, job opportunities, education, and healthcare, and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination.