The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and populist vision of a “rainbow coalition” of the poor and forgotten made him the nation’s most influential Black figure in the years between the ci...

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national movement for economic and social justice.

Jackson would instruct his staff to buy all the national newspapers and magazines as well as the local papers for the cities they were visiting because he felt it was important to really understand an...

The young man is the civil rights leader Jesse Jackson.

Jesse Jackson, the renowned civil rights leader who marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., has died aged 84.

Ed O'Keefe looks back at his life and legacy.