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Jesse Jackson returns to South Carolina to lie in state
Civil rights leader will receive final full honors from the state where, in 1960, he led Black students into a segregated library. After a long career of fighting for civil rights, the Rev Jesse Jackson Sr. is visiting his home for one last time to lie in state at the South Carolina capitol on Monday. The final full honors from the state where he was born is a far cry from his childhood in segregated Greenville, where in 1960 he could not go inside the local library's much better funded whites-only branch...
2 Mar, 13:11 — 2 Mar, 13:11
