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As mourners pay their respects Thursday to the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson as he lies in state at his Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s Chicago headquarters, a number of states have lowered or will lower their flags to half-staff in honor of the deceased civil rights activist.

The governors of at least a dozen states, including Jackson’s birth state of South Carolina, his adopted home state of Illinois, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, ordered the lowering of state flags after his death. Some, such as New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) ordered it the week of his death, while others, such as Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), ordered flags to be lowered this week. 

In South Carolina, Gov. Henry McMaster (R) directed the flags atop the Statehouse be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Mar. 2, the day Jackson will lie in state there. 

Jackson, 84, died earlier this month after a lengthy battle with the neurodegenerative disorder progressive supranuclear palsy. He is survived by his wife, Jacqueline Lavinia Brown, and six children: Santita Jackson, former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), Jonathan Luther Jackson, Yusef DuBois Jackson, Jacqueline Lavinia Jackson Jr. and Ashley Jackson. 

“A native son of South Carolina, and an icon of the civil rights movement, the Reverend Jesse Jackson was a prominent voice in our nation’s political and cultural dialogue,” McMaster wrote on Facebook the day Jackson passed.

Jackson, a mentee of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was one of the preeminent leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. He later ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 1984 and 1988, finishing in third and second place in those primaries, respectively. 

His death was met with mourning from across the political spectrum, with many paying tribute to his work throughout the decades. 

“Yesterday, we lost a giant who spent his life on the frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement. He broke down barriers, he inspired generations and he kept hope alive,” Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) said on Feb. 18. 

Jackson will lie in state at Rainbow PUSH headquarters Thursday and Friday, before services in South Carolina and Washington, D.C., next week, according to his coalition. Jackson served the nation’s capital as shadow senator from 1991-97. There will then be a celebration of life at the House of Hope in Chicago on Mar. 6, followed by homegoing services at Rainbow PUSH headquarters.

“These homegoing services are welcome to all, Democrat, Republican, liberal and conservative, right-wing, left-wing because his life is broad enough to cover the full spectrum of what it means to be American,” Jesse Jackson Jr. said at a press conference last week. “We only ask people to come and be respectful in the context of the extraordinary life he lived.”

Sarah Davis contributed reporting. 

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