The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a longtime civil rights activist and former candidate for President, has died at the age of 84, the Christian Post website reports today (Feb. 17, 2026).
The Jackson family released a statement announcing that the Baptist minister died on Feb.17morning, being survived by his wife, six children, and multiple grandchildren.
"Our father was a servant leader -- noy only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world," stated the Jackson family.
"We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family. His unwavering belief in justice,equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you to honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he lived by."
Jesse Louis Jackson was born Oct.8, 1941in Greenville, South Carolina. The son of a single teenage mother, Jackson was an honor student in high school and later earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina in 1964. He completed graduate work at the Chicago Theological Seminary in the 1960s and later received honorary degrees from the institution.
Jackson first engaged as an activist while a student at CTS when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Chicago to launch a northern chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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