Jackson worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was present at his assassination in 1968.

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 assassination, has ...

Harold Hall, who once lived in the neighborhood where Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.'s home sits, left a small bouquet outside the Jackson family’s door following the civil rights activist's death.

Jackson led a lifetime of crusades in the United States and abroad, advocating for the poor and underrepresented on issues from voting rights and job opportunities to education and health care.