The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a former presidential candidate, gives a thumbs-up and yells out for people to vote as he leaves the polls on Election Day at the Bryn Mawr Church at 7000 S. Jeffery Blvd. in Chicago on Nov. 8, 1988. (Phil Greer/Chicago Tribune)
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the Chicago-based Baptist minister, political figure and two-time presidential candidate whose soaring oratory and knack for capturing media attention made him a central figure in the Civil Rights Movement and national politics for more than six decades, has died. He was 84.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson in his office at Operation/PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago, Sept. 29, 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Rev. Jesse Jackson is recognized with family members and Rev. Al Sharpton on Aug. 19, 2024, during the Democratic National Convention at the United Center. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson attends a rally on June 2, 2020, with faith leaders, supporters, and members of the community in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood after the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, shakes hands with people in custody after speaking during Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's Christmas Day service at Cook County Jail in Chicago on Dec. 25, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)The REv. Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Catholic Church, from left, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Annette Nance-Holt, mother of Blair Holt who was a victim of gun violence, pray in front of Chuck's Gun Shop in Riverdale on June 29, 2007. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition lead a protest through the Loop on Dec. 6, 2015, in response to the Laquan McDonald shooting and continuing Chicago police investigation. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)Mahalia Jackson, far left, sings "We Shall Overcome" with civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, third left, Jesse Jackson, second from right, and Albert Raby, right, on Aug. 4, 1966, at New Friendship Baptist Church in Chicago. (Ray Foster/Chicago Tribune)Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walks along East Huron Street after a morning summit meeting at the St. James Episcopal Cathedral parish house at 666 N. Rush St. in Chicago on Aug. 17, 1966. The meeting was to discuss the city's racial problems. Jesse Jackson is at his side. (Al Phillips/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968, a day before he was assassinated at approximately the same place. From left are Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, King, and Ralph Abernathy. The 39-year-old Nobel laureate was the proponent of nonviolence in the 1960s American civil rights movement. (Charles Kelly/AP)The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks at a City Council memorial meeting on April 5, 1968, a day after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Jackson, who was present when King was killed the prior day, stressed nonviolence. Mayor Richard J. Daley is second from the right in the back row. (William Yates/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson, from left, Cassius Clay and Gayle Sayers at an event for CTA bus drivers on Sept. 4, 1968. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)The Rev. Jesse Jackson yells to the chairman to get attention about the demand for a two-thirds vote while on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Miami on July 11, 1972. Jackson was part of a group that managed to prevent a number of Illinois delegates controlled by Mayor Richard J. Daley from being seated. Jackson cited an arcane parliamentary procedure, saying the delegates had violated party rules. Clyde Choate, the Illinois chairman, is on right. (Dave Nystrom and Ron Bailey/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson holds a news conference in the Loop after a motorcade to try to register voters among Black majority wards on Jan. 24, 1970. (William Yates/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson, center, leaves a meeting with Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader Ralph Abernathy on Dec. 3, 1971, at the Marriott Hotel in Chicago. Jackson would soon split from the civil rights group to form Operation PUSH. (Walter Kale/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson passes the casket holding the body of Mahalia Jackson during funeral services for her at the Arie Crown Theater at McCormick Place on Feb. 1, 1972, in Chicago. (William Kelly/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson stands in the door of a police patrol wagon, addressing his followers before being taken to jail after violence broke out at a demonstration at the University of Illinois’ Circle Campus construction site on Sept. 8, 1969, in Chicago. Jackson was arrested for criminal trespassing. He was there with others, protesting the lack of union jobs for Black workers. (Don Casper/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, and Mr. T, protest ChicagoFest in August 1982. (Walter Kale/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson, center, campaigns in Cabrini Green with Aurelia Puchinski on March 15, 1988, when he was running for president of the United States. (Don Casper/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson plays basketball with residents during a visit to the Ida B. Wells housing project on April 3, 1989, in Chicago. (Charles Osgood/Chicago Tribune)David Duke, left, the Grand Wizard and national director of the Ku Klux Klan and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, during a taped discussion with Steve Edwards, center, the host of WLS-TV on Sept. 8, 1977. (George Quinn/Chicago Tribune)Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson, left, and Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, right, share in presenting the Rev. Jesse Jackson with the Chicago Medal of Merit on Jan. 10, 1984, at City Hall. Washington honored Jackson for securing the release of U.S. Navy Lt. Robert Goodman from Syrian captivity. (Karen Engstrom/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife, Jackie, clasp hands in triumph at the Albert Thomas Convention Center in Houston, March 8, 1988. Jackson led the Democratic presidential primary balloting in five Southern states. (Paul F. Gero/Chicago Tribune)Alds. Bobby Rush, from left, Anna Langford, Eugene Sawyer, Jesús "Chuy" García, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Ald. Timothy Evans pay their last respects to Mayor Harold Washington during his lying-in-state at City Hall in Chicago on Nov. 27, 1987. (Michael Fryer/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, kisses his son, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Aug. 27, 1996. (Bill Hogan/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson issues directions to the crowd of more than 3,000 who attend the "Black Monday" protest rally in Civic Center Plaza on Sept. 22, 1969, in Chicago. Demonstrations coincided with rallies being held in various other cities across the nation protesting job discrimination. (Luigi Mendicino/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson, center, walks past Chicago police officers from the 18th District at Cabrini Green on July 22, 1970, in Chicago. Two police officers were shot there the prior week. (Frank Hanes/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson embraces one of the jail inmates as he greets them on his walk around the stands after holiday festivities on Dec. 25, 1989, at 26th and California streets in Chicago. (Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson with his wife, Jacqueline, at Operation PUSH headquarters, 930 W. 50th St. "We must, in my judgment, assume a new course, organize a new coalition under a new leadership." (Ovie Carter/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson, center, of Operation Breadbasket, marches in Springfield on June 26, 1969. (Luigi Mendicino/Chicago Tribune)Bishop Tavis Grant, from left, Aaron Kinzer, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dionte Johnson and Brian Serratos walk out of Cook County Jail after a Christmas service led by Jackson in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood on Dec. 25, 2019. Jackson announced during the service that he would be bailing out four inmates. (Camille Fine/Chicago Tribune)Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, from left, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and Mayor Rahm Emanuel bow their heads during the invocation at the 32nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Breakfast held at the Marriott Marquis Chicago on Jan. 12, 2018. (José M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune)"This is my life," he says. "This is my ministry," says the Rev. Jesse Jackson, photographed in 2005. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago TribuneThe Rev. Jesse Jackson, a presidential candidate, speaks at O'Hare International Airport on Jan. 10, 1984. (Jerry Tomaselli/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson with U.S. Senate hopeful Roland Burris, left, and Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, right, March 17, 1984, in Chicago. (Ovie Carter/Chicago Tribune)Presidential candidate the Rev. Jesse Jackson and civil rights activist Rosa Parks appear together at the Democratic National Convention on July 19, 1988 in Atlanta. (Karen Engstrom/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson greets his mother, Helen, at her home in Greenville, S.C., in 2005. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, center left, stands for pictures with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, bottom center, after a rally for striking workers at UAW Local 551, Oct. 7, 2023, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson, joined by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, leads a Juneteenth march through the Loop, June 19, 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson after receiving the Legion of Honor Medal in Paris on July 19, 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)French President Emmanuel Macron escorts the Rev. Jesse Jackson to the Legion of Honor ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris, July 19, 2021. Jackson was given the rank of Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honor, the highest of all French military and civilian honors. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his son Jonathan Jackson at the Eiffel Tower in Paris in advance of his his being awarded the rank of Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honor, July 16, 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)
