Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson appears during the 2024 Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago in August 2024. Jackson’s body will like in state Monday at the Capitol Rotunda in Columbia, S.C. File Photo by Matt Marton/UPI | License Photo
Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in state Monday at the South Carolina state capitol building.
Jackson’s body will lie in state in the state’s Capitol Rotunda in Columbia, S.C. There will be a private service at 10 a.m., and a public service at 10:30 a.m. EST. It will include comments from local, state and federal leaders, music from the Allen University and Benedict College choirs, and a wreath placement ceremony.
There will also be a 6 p.m. service at Brookland Baptist Church in West Columbia, S.C.
Jackson’s widow, Jacqueline Jackson, 81, will not attend the South Carolina events due to illness, her son, former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., said. She is in Nashville, Tenn., and will join the family in Chicago as soon as she’s able.
There will be a public service at House of Hope in Chicago, at 11 a.m. CST Friday.
A service planned for Washington, D.C., has been postponed, CBS News reported his representatives said Sunday.
“The Jackson Family looks forward to honoring Rev. Jackson’s work and life in Washington, a city that held rich friendships and deep meaning for the Reverend,” Jackson’s family said in a Sunday press release.
Jackson, a Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate, died Feb. 16 at 84 of complications from supranuclear palsy, a neurodegenerative brain disease. He was born in Greenville, S.C.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks during a press conference after the weekly Republican Senate caucus luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
