Summer Van Binton

Jackson founded the Rainbow Push Coalition here in Chicago in 1996.

Thousands have come through to pay their respects to the late civil rights leader.

Jackson's senior advisor, Reverend Jeanette Wilson, says she thinks Jackson's passing will awaken people, recalling a conversation she had with a young man.

Next week, Jackson will lie in repose in his home state of South Carolina before heading to Washington, D.C.

For NPR News, I'm Summer Van Binton in Chicago.