Mourners line up to pay tribute to the late Rev. Jesse Jackson at SC Statehouse

By: Skylar Laird, Jessica Holdman

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: March 2, 2026

Words: 1,252

Last Updated: 1 week, 2 days ago

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COLUMBIA — Mourners circled the Statehouse on Monday to honor the Rev. Jesse Jackson and say “thank you” to a civil rights icon whose activism for equality began in the Palmetto State.

Jackson died Feb. 17 at his home in Chicago at age 84. Though never an elected official himself, he inspired generations of Americans through his historic 1984 and 1988 campaigns for president. But it was a segregated library in Greenville in 1960, while …

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