COLUMBIA, S.C. — The late Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in state at the South Carolina State House as part of the arrangements honoring the civil rights leader who died on Feb. 17.

Jackson will lie in state Monday, March 2.

Further details have yet to be finalized.

Gov. Henry McMaster also will order flags to be lowered to half-staff March 2 in honor of Jackson, the governor’s office said in a news release.

Jackson is a South Carolina native and was born in Greenville in 1941.

In July 1960, Jackson was one of eight Black students to stage a sit-in at the whites-only Greenville County Public Library. Known as the Greenville Eight, they were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after refusing requests to leave.

Jackson was with Martin Luther King Jr. when King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. Jackson went on to found the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a progressive group dedicated to fighting for social change.

He ran for president in 1984 and 1988.

The request for Jackson to lie in repose at the State House was made by several state lawmakers and Jackson’s family, the governor’s office said.

The last person to lie in repose at the State House was the late U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings in 2019. Before that was the late state Sen. Clementa Pickney in 2015.

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