UPDATED: Felder discusses his childhood and activism with late collaborator the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.

BY RHIANNON O'BERRY
rhiannon@theitem.com
Posted 2/21/26

Sumter native, former state lawmaker and civil rights leader James "Jim" Lee Felder was already set to travel to Sumter on Feb. 17 before the Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., a fellow civil rights activist native to South Carolina and longtime …

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