Illinois SR 618: MEMORIAL-REV. JESSE JACKSON

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SR0618LRB104 20858 MST 34496 r

1SENATE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights icon 

3who battled alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., negotiated 

4global hostage releases, and shamed corporations for their 

5lack of corporate diversity and failure to support voting 

6rights, passed away on February 17, 2026 at the age of 84; and

7 WHEREAS, Rev. Jackson was born in Greenville, South 

8Carolina in 1941 and attended a segregated high school; and

9 WHEREAS, Rev. Jackson's rise to prominence began in 1960 

10at the age of 18 when he and seven other men were arrested for 

11protesting segregation at their town's public library; and

12 WHEREAS, Rev. Jackson, by 1965, had marched alongside Dr. 

13King and others from Selma to Montgomery to push for Black 

14voting rights, and by 1967, he was running operations for Dr. 

15King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 

16Chicago, the city that would become his home; and

17 WHEREAS, Rev. Jackson was just feet away from Dr. King 

18when he was assassinated in 1968; and

19 WHEREAS, Rev. Jackson guided the SCLC's Operation 

20Breadbasket use of boycotts and public attention to pressure 

SR0618- 2 -LRB104 20858 MST 34496 r

1companies to hire more Black workers; and

2 WHEREAS, Rev. Jackson earned his divinity degree after 

3being ordained a minister in 1968; and

4 WHEREAS, Rev. Jackson traveled to Syria in 1983 to 

5negotiate the release of an American pilot shot down over 

6Lebanon, and the next summer, he negotiated the release of 22 

7Americans and 26 political prisoners from Cuba after meeting 

8with former dictator Fidel Castro; and

9 WHEREAS, Rev. Jackson founded the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition 

10and ran for president as a Dem