By Jneffrey Collis 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. A horse-drawn caisson brought Jackson’s body to the Capitol and white-gloved state troopers brought the casket inside, where Jackson was only the second Black person to lie in state. The service started with a rousing version of the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” that reverberated through the Statehouse — a building that was partially destroyed in 1865 during the Civil War, which South Carolina started to keep slavery. Before the doors opened to the public, politicians and other guests

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