See photos of the Rev. Jesse Jackson through the years

The Rev. Jesse Jackson takes a walk on the floor of the Fleet Center on the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Boston on July 27, 2004.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks at an event at Nassau Community College in 2010.

Days after Sean Bell was fatally shot by undercover NYPD officers in 2006, the Revs. Al Sharpton, center, left, and Jesse Jackson held a news conference, flanked by Bell's fiancee, Nicole Poultre, and mother, Valerie Bell.

President Bill Clinton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson during a speech by Ivan Seidenberg, of Bell Atlantic, during the Rainbow PUSH/Coalition Wall Street Project in Manhattan in 2000.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson escorts Nicole Poultre, the fiancee of Sean Bell, with the Rev. Al Sharpton, left, near where Bell was fatally shot by undercover NYPD officers in 2006.

The Revs. Al Sharpton, left, and Jesse Jackson share a light moment before a1994 roundtable at the National Rainbow Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund's annual conference in Manhattan.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Rev. Jesse Jackson before the debate between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at Hofstra University on Sept. 26, 2016.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to demonstrators before the start of the United for Peace and Justice March on Aug. 29, 2004, ahead of the Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in Zucotti Park in lower Manhattan in 2011.

Filmmaker Spike Lee, left, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson take in a Knicks basketball game at Madison Square Garden in 1992.

The Revs. Al Sharpton, left, and Jesse Jackson, march in the African American Day Parade in Harlem in 2017.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson attends a ceremony for the induction of the Nassau Legislature at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Uniondale on Jan. 2, 2008, featuring a performance by the Perrier siblings, from left: Victoria, 14, Tiffany, 12, and Christina, 11.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to the media as he arrives for a meeting in Manhattan on April 12, 2007, with CBS officials asking them to cancel Don Imus' show after Imus made racist and sexist comments on the program.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Boston on July 28, 2004.

Rep. Charles Rangel, left, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson before the debate between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the Hofstra University debate in Hempstead on Sept. 26, 2016.

Muhammad Ali, right, announces plans at the United Nations to donate the prize money from his next fight to famine relief in Africa, with, from left: Jack Ling, of UNICEF, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and fight promoter Don King.

The Rev Jesse Jackson leaves the funeral Mass for singer Whitney Houston at the New Baptist Church in Newark on Feb 18, 2012.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Aug. 29, 1989, outside the Brooklyn funeral home holding the wake for slain teen Yusuf Hawkins, who was killed the previous week in a racially motivated shooting.

Rachel Robinson, the widow of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, speaks with the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, far left, after a press conference honoring Nelson Mandela at Yankee Stadium in 2014.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson sits courtside during the basketball game between the New York Knicks and the Toronto Raptors at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 9, 2019.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 27, 2016.

Jesse Jackson at a news conference honoring Nelson Mandela at Yankee Stadium on ,Apr. 16, 2014.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks with the Rev. Jesse Jackson after he addressed the National Action Network's 25th anniversary convention on April 14, 2016, in Manhattan.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson attends the ceremony for the induction of the Nassau County Legislature held at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Uniondale on Jan. 2, 2008.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, top left, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson arrive at opening night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2024.