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

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

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 ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, has spent the last 60 years of his ...

A timeline of Jesse Jackson's life.