Civil Rights Movement

Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader

How Jesse Jackson Took King’s Civil Rights Movement to Company Doorsteps

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national movement for economic and social justice.

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Civil rights activist Jesse L. Jackson dies

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The LEAD Fund Mourns the Passing of Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson Trailblazer and Civil Rights Leader

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Rev. Jesse Jackson, preacher to iconic civil rights leader, dies

In July 1960, Jesse Jackson (second row, left) and seven other students were arrested for trying to integrate the Greenville County Library in South Carolina.

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Here Are the Tributes to the Rev. Jesse Jackson From Leaders and Activists

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From campaigns to boycotts, remembering Jesse Jackson's Cincinnati visits

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What was Rev. Jesse Jackson's cause of death? How civil rights activist died, MLK, wife, children

He was a prominent activist who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and ran for president in 1984 and 1988.

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How the Rev. Jesse Jackson transformed American politics

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Key Quotes From the Rev. Jesse Jackson That Define His Politics and Legacy

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Last Freedom House in Mississippi gets Civil Rights marker in Canton

The Canton Freedom House, key to the US Civil Rights Movement and the last CORE site in Mississippi, joins the Mississippi Freedom Trail.

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Georgia Civil Rights Trail highlights Savannah sites & history

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — February is Black History Month, a time to reflect on the people and places that shaped the fight for civil rights. Across Georgia, historical markers are helping to tell those stories through the Georgia Civil Rights Trail.

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BLACK HISTORY: 3 farmers risk their land and lives for civil rights

In the Mileston community about 800 farmers had built up an independent way of living: their own crops, their own land, their own ideal world. There were three men who saw beyond that.

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Family of Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks in his memory; memorial and funeral plans announced

The family of civil rights icon the Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke publicly on Wednesday morning, just one day after he died peacefully surrounded by loved ones.