Presidents honor civil rights leader Jesse Jackson

(The Center Square) – Former President Barack Obama said his path to the White House was laid by late civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. The public home going service for Jackson was at House of Hope in Chicago on Friday. Obama said he was nominated for the presidency because of the path Jackson laid when he ran for president in 1984 and 1988. “Because of his courage, his audacity, that two decades later, a young Black senator from Chicago’s South Side would even be taken seriously as a candidate for the presidential nomination,” Obama said. Former presidents Joe Biden and Bill Clinton also attended the service. Other speakers included Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Pritzker said you could feel Jackson’s spirit in the movements for justice that grew from the seeds he tilled. “His ambition, the North Star of his advocacy, was to shape a world wh