Jesse Jackson
Acting
Born 1941-10-08 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He founded of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted 'the most important black leader'.
Filmography
South to Black Power
Nov 28, 2023
Loudmouth
Dec 9, 2022
El otro Rey de Chicago
Apr 18, 2022
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Oct 13, 2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Sep 11, 2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Jul 2, 2021
September First, Twenty-Twenty
May 10, 2021
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
May 5, 2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Apr 23, 2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Mar 1, 2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Jan 11, 2021
Uncle Tom
Jun 19, 2020
Bernie Blackout
May 13, 2020
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Jul 26, 2019
Chicago at the Crossroad
Jun 1, 2019
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Jun 13, 2018
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Apr 4, 2018
I Am MLK Jr.
Apr 4, 2018
LA 92
Apr 28, 2017
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Oct 1, 2016
Crashing the Party
Jul 21, 2016
Fantastic Lies
Mar 13, 2016
We Are Many
Jun 8, 2014
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Apr 23, 2013
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Feb 12, 2012
A Man's Story
Oct 8, 2011
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Oct 14, 2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Sep 12, 2009
Michael Jackson Memorial
Jul 7, 2009
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Jun 21, 2009