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Rev. Jesse Jackson returns home to South Carolina to lie in state

COLUMBIA, S. C. (AP) — 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 couldn't go inside the local library's much better funded whites-only branch to check out a book he needed. Jackson led seven Black high school students into that branch,...

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