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Civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in state Monday at the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia.
His body will be placed in the Capitol Rotunda, with a private service at 10 a.m. and a public service at 10:30 a.m. EST. The events will feature remarks from local, state, and federal officials, performances by the Allen University and Benedict College choirs, and a wreath-laying ceremony. A separate service will take place at 6 p.m. at Brookland Baptist Church in West Columbia, S.C.
Jackson’s widow, Jacqueline Jackson, 81, will not attend the South Carolina ceremonies due to illness, her son, former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., said. She is in Nashville and plans to join the family in Chicago as soon as possible. A public service in Chicago is scheduled for 11 a.m. CST Friday at the House of Hope.
A service in Washington, D.C., has been postponed, according to Jackson’s representatives. “The Jackson Family looks forward to honoring Rev. Jackson’s work and life in Washington, a city that held rich friendships and deep meaning for the Reverend,” the family said in a Sunday statement.
Jackson, a Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate, died Feb. 16 at 84 from complications of supranuclear palsy, a rare neurodegenerative brain disease. He was born in Greenville, S.C.
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