Memorializing Rev. Jesse Jackson by flying the flag of the United States at halfstaff.

This House resolution honors the life of Rev. Jesse Jackson. It describes his birth in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1941, his work with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, his founding of Operation PUSH and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and his presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988. The resolution asks the President to issue a proclamation lowering U.S. flags to half-staff in his memory. It does not itself order flags to be lowered.

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Sponsors

• Joyce Beatty Democrat sponsor
• 166 cosponsors