Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson was discharged Monday from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and is in stable condition, according to the Rainbow Push Coalition.

Jackson, who was a protégé of the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was hospitalized in Chicago earlier this month to receive medication to manage his blood pressure. 

He was first admitted to the Intensive Care Unit but was transferred last week for observation of his progressive supranuclear palsy.

“Our family would like to thank the countless friends and supporters who have reached out, visited, and prayed for our father,” his son Yusef Jackson said in a statement. “We bear witness to the fact that prayer works and would also like to thank the professional, caring, and amazing medical and security staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. 

"We humbly ask for your continued prayers throughout this precious time," he added.

Jackson was first diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2013, but the diagnosis was changed to progressive supranuclear palsy, a different neurological condition, in April, the foundation said.

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