Jesse Jackson

The event honoring the protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate follows memorial services that drew large crowds in Chicago and South Carolina, where the civil rights leader was born.

Several thousand citizens made their way to Columbia Monday as South Carolina held memorial services in the state's capital city to honor the late Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Civil rights leader and Greenville native the Rev. Jesse Jackson was honored at the South Carolina Statehouse on March 2 before a memorial service at Brookland Baptist Church.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is back in South Carolina for a final public farewell. On Monday, Jackson will lie in state at the Capitol in Columbia. South Carolina ETV and Public Radio will have live coverage of the public tributes.

The late Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Feb. 17 at age 84, will be memorialized in Columbia March 2 with services at the Statehouse and a local church.

As the Civil Rights icon is laid to rest, neighbors and friends who knew the Rev. Jesse Jackson reflect on how extraordinary, and yet how extraordinarily simple he was to the community he grew up in.

On this episode of the SC Lede for February 24, 2026: We continue our coverage of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson with an update on memorial plans. We also have from Congressman Jim Clyburn and Camden Mayor Vincent Sheehen about their new books.