Rev. Jesse Jackson to be laid to rest at Oak Woods Cemetery, 'part of the city's unrivaled historic fabric'

“Graceland Cemetery [on the North Side] is very well-known and casts a very long shadow and is one of those places where if you’re looking at historic cemeteries in the U.S. is sort of in that top 10,” Charles Birnbaum, president and CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based Cultural Landscape Foundation, said. “But Oak Woods is yet another great cemetery of substantial scale that is part of the city’s unrivaled historic fabric.”