French President Emmanuel Macron named American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson a commander of the Legion of Honor, France’s highest honor for merit, both military and civil. In his speech, Macron praised Jackson’s ‘long walk toward emancipation and justice’ during the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. and called him a ‘great friend of France.’ Jackson, a minister and former presidential candidate, has been involved in the civil rights movement since the 1960s, when he worked alongside Marti