Mourners lined up outside Rainbow PUSH, the organization Mr. Jackson founded decades ago. He died last week at 84. By Julie Bosman Photographs by Jamie Kelter Davis Reporting from Chicago At 6:30 a.m.

In 1988, the Reverend Jesse Jackson ended his outsider campaign for president with a stirring speech for the history books: "We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson will be memorialized in Chicago during funeral services in the coming weeks, his family said on Wednesday. The civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate died ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, is being remembered as "a role model for a generation," in the words of Marc Morial, the president of National Urban League, the civil rights ...

To understand why Jackson reacted so viscerally to Obama, one must first understand who he was. Long before Obama’s rise, Jesse Jackson was the closest thing America had to a national Black political ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the two-time presidential candidate and activist who was the dominant figure in Black politics from the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. until the emergence of ...

Jackson’s two presidential runs brought the civil rights movement into the heart of the Democratic party and opened doors for others to walk through Share your tributes and memories of Jesse Jackson ...

Legendary civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson died Tuesday morning, three months after he was hospitalized with a rare brain disease. He was 84. Jackson, a former presidential candidate and protégé ...

Follow live updates as tributes pour in for Jesse Jackson. The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a civil rights icon, Baptist minister and two-time Democratic presidential candidate. A protege of Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson fought on the front lines of the battle ...

A trailblazer in the civil rights movement and Democratic politics, Jackson championed the rights of Black, poor and working-class people with his ‘rainbow coalition’ ‘One of America’s greatest ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate whose booming oratory and populist message propelled the Civil Rights Movement in the decades after the assassination ...