The aging civil rights icon had been hospitalized on Nov. 12. The 84-year-old experiences progressive supranuclear palsy, a neurological disorder, according to his family.
Longtime civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson hospitalized
Civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized, according to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., the civil rights icon who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., created economic opportunities for Black Americans and ran for president, has been released from the hospital, his family announced on Nov. 24.
“Our family would like to thank the countless friends and supporters who have reached out, visited, and prayed for our father. We bear witness to the fact that prayer works and would also like to thank the professional, caring, and amazing medical and security staff,” Yusef Jackson, the reverend’s son and a Jackson family spokesperson, said in a statement. “We humbly ask for your continued prayers throughout this precious time.”
Jackson was hospitalized on Nov. 12 amid a bout with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a neurological disorder. The 84-year-old was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2013. In April, Jackson’s diagnosis was changed to PSP.
According to family, Jackson was hospitalized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, a city that’s long been the base of the Jackson family’s civil rights operations. He is in stable condition, the family said.
