Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s office confirmed that Jackson’s casket will go through Nashville on Saturday, beginning at about 8:45 p.m. from 2500 Clarksville Pike before traveling through the city and concluding in downtown.
It will then head to South Carolina and Washington, D.C. His body will return to Chicago next week for a public and private funeral before his burial.
Thousands of people from all walks of life visited the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s headquarters in Kenwood on Thursday to show their gratitude for the civil rights leader, who died Feb. 17.
Memorial services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. began in Chicago, before events in Washington, D.C., and South Carolina, where he was born, to honor his long civil rights legacy. Jackson died on Feb. 17 at 84.
