Published: 05:23 GMT, 13 November 2025 | Updated: 05:49 GMT, 13 November 2025

Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson has been suddenly hospitalized in Chicago as details about his condition remain a mystery.

Jackson, 84, was admitted into Northwestern Memorial Hospital on Wednesday after spending more than 60 years advocating for racial equality and economic justice.

The Rainbow PUSH Coalition said in a statement that the reverend is 'currently under observation for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy,' a neurodegenerative condition he has been managing for more than a decade.

While originally diagnosed with Parkinson's, he was confirmed to have PSP in April, the release stated.

Jackson, born in Greenville, South Carolina, attended the University of Illinois before he transferred and graduated from the North Carolina A&T State University in 1964.

He began working with Dr Martin Luther King Jr during the Civil Rights Movement after deferring his further studies at Chicago Theological Seminary.

The reverend has been dubbed the 'Conscience of the Nation' and 'the Great Unifier,' according to the PUSH coalition.

'Jackson [challenged] America to be inclusive and to establish just and humane priorities for the benefit of all,' the coalition said. 'He is known for bringing people together on common ground across lines of race, culture, class, gender and belief.'

Jackson founded the Rainbow PUSH coalition, a organization fighting for social change, and garnered national attention in the 1960s as Martin Luther King Jr's protege.