The Rev. Jesse Jackson marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., ran for president in the 1980s and led the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition in Chicago for decades.

The reverend and civil rights leader was a major proponent of using nonviolent protest to fight for equality.

Communities across the country will soon honor the life and legacy of an American civil rights icon. Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed on Monday. Like the civil rights movement itself, the federal holiday didn't come together seamlessly.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on Monday, Jan. 19, this year. Observed annually on the third Monday in January, the federal holiday is set aside to recognize civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday falls on Jan. 15. An activist ...

The late Rev. Jesse Jackson might best be remembered as a longtime civil rights leader, but he also played a pivotal role in presidential politics.

Jesse Jackson, a key figure during the US civil rights movement of the 1960s, was known for being the first African American to make the jump from activism to major-party presidential politics. A protege of Martin Luther King Jr,

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was known not just as a tireless advocate for the Civil Rights Movement but as one of its most dynamic orators