Jesse Jackson returns to South Carolina to lie in state
Source: US news | The Guardian · Bias: Center Left
Summary
Civil rights leader will get final full honors from state where, in 1960, he led Black students into segregated libraryAfter a long career of fighting for civil rights, the Rev Jesse Jackson Sr is visiting his home for one last time to lie in state at the South Carolina capitol on Monday.The final full honors from the state where he was born is a far cry from his childhood in segregated Greenville, where in 1960 he couldn’t go inside the local library’s much better funded whites-only branch to check out a book he needed. Continue reading...
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