Flags at half-staff in Virginia to honor Rev. Jesse Jackson

ARLINGTON, Va. (7News) — Flags are flying at half-staff in Virginia on Saturday in honor of the life of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.

Governor Abigail Spanberger ordered that the flags be flown at half-staff on all state and local buildings and grounds in the Commonwealth in honor of Jackson. The civil rights leader died on Tuesday. He was 84.

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“We honor his decades of service as a minister, community leader, and international civil rights leader,” Spanberger wrote in the order.

The flags will remain at half-staff until sunset.

Jackson’s family confirmed he died at home, surrounded by family. He was battling the neurodegenerative disorder Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP).

He is survived by his wife, Jacqueline Lavinia Brown, and their five children: Santita Jackson, former Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.), Jonathan Luther Jackson, Yusef DuBois Jackson, Esq., and Jacqueline Lavinia Jackson, Jr.

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Jackson was known as a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and helped lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

Jackson was with King during his assassination at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968.