He advocated for the poor and underrepresented on a wide range of issues. The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...
Author Dylan C. Penningroth says that the fight for civil rights didn't begin with famous marches. What if the conventional narrative of the 1960s civil rights era, by its very nature, limits the ...
As a series of memorial services begin to pay respects to Jackson, a new generation of leaders works to preserve hard-fought ...