Jackson’s body lay in repose at his Rainbow/Push Coalition headquarters as thousands visited to pay their respects
S
ome were older, some were younger and some were strangers, but many more were friends – they had lined up down the blocks of Chicago in mercifully mild weather for a chance to say goodbye to the civil rights leader Jesse Jackson.
Friday was the last day of public visitation as Jackson lay in repose at the headquarters of his Rainbow/Push political activism coalition in the city he called home.
Jackson died in Chicago on 17 February, at the age of 84. On Saturday he began his last journey, by road from the city near the tip of Lake Michigan to the state of his birth, South Carolina, where he will lie in repose at the state capitol in Columbia ahead of funeral services on Monday.
