COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr. was honored Monday in the state where he grew up under segregation with a hero’s memorial, his flag-draped casket under the Capitol’s rotunda and thousands of people circling the Statehouse grounds waiting to honor him.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is being honored in South Carolina, where he was born and where his civil rights work began as a teenager.

People packed into the South Carolina Statehouse by the hundreds Monday to pay their respects to the late Reverend Jesse Jackson, who was lying in state there. Shock, sadness

Flags were lowered to half-staff this morning in South Carolina, where civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in repose at the state capitol.

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will lie in state at the South Carolina State House on March 2, following national mourning and a dispute in Washington.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is visiting his home for one last time to lie in state Monday at the South Carolina Capitol. (AP Photo)

Rev. Jesse Jackson's death deeply impacts Greenville's Butler and Mathis families, who share decades of close ties and civil rights history.