Rev. Jesse Jackson lies in state in South Carolina

Rev. Jesse Jackson's casket arrived at the South Carolina Statehouse, where flags flew at half-staff to honor the civil rights icon.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina – Thousands stood in a line that wrapped around the South Carolina Statehouse on March 2, waiting to pay their respects to the late Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Jackson, a Greenville native and trailblazer in the American Civil Rights Movement, died on Feb. 17 at 84. His casket, draped with the American flag, arrived at the statehouse on March 2 for his second lying in state, the first of which happened in Chicago.

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Aaron Brown, a retired Air Force officer, traveled from Barnesville, Georgia, to pay his respects to Jackson. Brown joined the Air Force a month before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, and he said Jackson inspired his military service.

At the order of Gov. Henry McMaster, flags above the statehouse flew at half-staff in windy, overcast skies ahead of a day of memorial services in honor of American Civil Rights Movement trailblazer Jackson. An Allen University choir sang out as Jackson's casket arrived at the statehouse and was carried into the building as family watched, teary-eyed.