Body of Jesse Jackson is to lie in state in S.C.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is being honored in South Carolina, where he was born and where his civil rights work began as a teenager. Next Monday his body will lie in state at the South Carolina Statehouse. Jackson died on Feb. 17 from a rare neurological disorder. He will lie in repose this week at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Chicago before being honored in South Carolina. Jackson grew up in Greenville and in 1960 led seven other high school classmates into a whites only public library where they quietly read books and magazines until they were arrested.