Ashley Jackson, from left, Jackie Jackson, Santita Jackson and Jesse Jackson Jr. sing “Lift Every Voice” as their father the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s casket lies in repose in the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)
Flags were lowered to half-staff in South Carolina, where civil rights icon and native son Rev. Jesse Jackson became only the second Black man in history to lie in repose inside the state capitol building in Columbia, S.C. Jackson died Feb. 17 in Chicago at age 84.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson's children, from left, Yusef Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Santita Jackson, Jesse Jackson Jr. and Ashley Jackson watch as the procession for their father arrives at the South Carolina State House, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Jesse Jackson lies in repose at the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)The casket of the Rev. Jesse Jackson is carried by a caisson on the way to the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)An African American history monument by sculptor Ed Dwight in front of a long line of visitors waiting to pay their respects to to the Rev. Jesse Jackson wraps around the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Santita Jackson thanks people gathered for the ceremony as her father the Rev. Jesse Jackson's casket lies in repose in the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)The children of the Rev. Jesse Jackson stand as his casket is carried by South Carolina State Troopers outside the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Choir members from Allen University, a historically Black university in Columbia, South Carolina, watch the caisson procession with the casket of the Rev. Jesse Jackson outside the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Jesse Jackson Jr. stands during a ceremony as his father’s body lies in repose in the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Yusef Jackson, left, and his family attend a ceremony for his father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, in the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)U.S. Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina speaks as the Rev. Jesse Jackson lies in repose at the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)The casket of the Rev. Jesse Jackson is carried by a caisson on the way to the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Joe L. Reed, from Montgomery, Alabama, waits to pay his respects to the Rev. Jesse Jackson at the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Marcono Hines Jr., of Durham, North Carolina, left, waits in a long line of visitors waiting to pay their respects to the Rev. Jesse Jackson at the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)A line of visitors to see the Rev. Jesse Jackson lying in repose wait to get into the Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Civil rights activist and former U.S. Rep. and Andrew Young pays his respects as the Rev. Jesse Jackson lies in repose at the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)The flags fly at half-staff over the South Carolina State House in Columbia as a crowd wraps around the building to pay their respects to the Rev. Jesse Jackson lying in repose inside the capitol, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Yusef Jackson, from left, Jackie Jackson, Santita Jackson, Jesse Jackson Jr. and Ashley Jackson watch the casket of their father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, as it's carried by South Carolina state troopers outside the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Judge Greg Mathis joins the Jackson family walking behind the caisson procession with the casket of the Rev. Jesse Jackson outside the South Carolina State House in Columbia, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)
