The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

Unraveling the murder of William Moore, who walked alone into Alabama in the name of equal rights

They didn’t think I’d finish my walk alive," Moore wrote in his diary. "They didn’t think people believed I really stood for ...
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Jesse Jackson Witnessed Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination. Here’s How He Carried the Torch for the Civil Rights Movement Into the Future

Jackson would go on to become an American civil and human rights icon; an influential politician and presidential candidate; ...

Jesse Jackson, Charismatic Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 84

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and ...

How Jesse Jackson Took King’s Civil Rights Movement to Company Doorsteps

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

Remembering The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an American original

"Sunday Morning" looks back on the life of the Baptist minister, civil rights leader and social justice activist, whose trailblazing presidential campaigns, built on a message of economic support and ...

A racist murder in Portland in the 1980s planted seeds of hate, but also a resistance movement

A new documentary from Oregon Public Broadcasting explores the story of the murder of Mulugeta Seraw, the regional and national forces that led to his death, and how Portland and the country changed ...