Civil rights trailblazer and political groundbreaker Jesse Jackson went to his grave envying Barack Obama because he stole his dream of becoming the nation’s first Black president.

The line to get into Jackson's services wrapped around the parking lot at House of Hope, as people from all walks of life decided the memorial was a moment they could not miss.

"The message he sent to a 22-year-old child of a single mother with a funny name, an outsider, was that maybe there wasn't any place or any room where we didn't belong," Obama said Friday at a Chicago...