Jesse Jackson
Department: Acting
Biography
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'.
Known For
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
University, Inc.
1999
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
A Man's Story
2011
The Soul of Stax
1994
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
Uptight
1968
Ballou
2008
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
Operation Breadbasket
1969
Crashing the Party
2016
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983
Uncle Tom
2020
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
We Are Many
2014
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
Loudmouth
2022
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
4 Little Girls
1997
A Matter of Respect
1980
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988
South to Black Power
2023
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
Save the Children
1973
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
Fantastic Lies
2016
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
A Decade of Struggle
1980
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993
Route One/USA
1989
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
Decade
1989
Nationtime
1972
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
Last Party 2000
2001
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
Bernie Blackout
2020
We Are Universal
1971
Dear Mister President
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LA 92
2017
The Day the Troubles Began
2008
Wattstax
1973
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Daily Show
1996
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
Robins
2006
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
Shut Up and Dribble
2018
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Tanner '88
1988
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Chris Rock Show
1997
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
A Different World
1987
Baseball
1994
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Explained
2018
Dinah!
1974
Obama
2020
Saturday Night Live
1975
World in Action
1963
Tanner on Tanner
2004