In her four years at Wellesley, Rodham had witnessed urban riots, the escalation of the war in Vietnam and the murders of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. She was in no mood to ...

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Kevin Washington remembers the day vividly. It was October 26, 1967. He was a 14 year old ninth grader at what was then Barratt Junior High School. The students had been ...

Jesse Jackson called Gandhi the “spiritual godfather” of civil rights leaders, linking US anti-racism struggles to India’s freedom movement.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rev. Jesse Jackson returned to Memphis on Monday to mark the 54th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson died on Feb. 17, 2026, at the age of 84. The Commercial Appeal is republishing some stories from Jackson's various visits to Memphis. This story originally published on April 4, ...

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