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

His life traced the arc from the Civil Rights Movement to the challenges of a post–Civil Rights America still wrestling with ...

Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Girard College in Philadelphia in 1965, and the McAllister family are featured in a photo of that day ...

Eden Prairie students honored at City Council for art and essays inspired by Black civil rights leaders during Words in Action contest.

A global civil rights leader remembered across the country is also being remembered in the Ohio Valley. Fourth Ward Councilman Royal Mayo said the visit by the Rev.

The cradle of the Civil Rights Movement is mourning the loss of Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was known not just as a tireless advocate for the Civil Rights Movement but as one of its most dynamic orators. He spoke tirelessly for ...

“From Martin Luther King to Barack Obama, there’s a bridge called Jesse Jackson,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said. Jackson, a ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s ...

Civil Rights leader and two-time presidential candidate Jesse Jackson died Tuesday morning at 84 years old. Jackson worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr during the Civil Rights Movement, helping ...

Jesse Jackson, one of the world's best-known Black activists who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died at the age of ...

Martin Luther King III, the son of civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., on Tuesday urged the public to “keep ...