The Canton Freedom House, key to the US Civil Rights Movement and the last CORE site in Mississippi, joins the Mississippi Freedom Trail.
Albany’s Rutha Mae Harris, last original Freedom Singer, preserves civil rights history through music and advocacy.
The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died ...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., ran for president in the 1980s and led the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition in Chicago for decades.
A historic lunch counter from Read's Drugstore is on display in the Morgan State University Student Center, which would help ...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s death has spurred Lowcountry leaders and the Penn Center to redouble efforts to teach civil rights ...
"Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the ...
Jackson would go on to become an American civil and human rights icon; an influential politician and presidential candidate; ...
Reverend Jesse Jackson, a prominent civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, has died at the age of 84, ...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson had a long relationship with Detroit and Michigan, which its politicians and faith leaders remembered after his death Feb. 17.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow Coalition, has died at 84, leaving a lasting legacy in voting rights, LGBTQ advocacy, and Democratic politics.
Before he became one of the most visible civil rights leaders of the late 20th Century, Jackson’s political and moral ...