Salisbury residents will honor the late community activist Billy Gene Jackson who died last week at the age of 77.
There will be a candle light vigil at 7 p.m. on June 5th at the park that is named after him.
The following day on June 6h a memorial service will be held at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center.
An activist as far back as the 1960’s Jackson initiated a lawsuit in 1987 that ultimately required Salisbury to include its first black city council member.
His daughter April Jackson told the Salisbury Daily Times that her father was a person for all people.
