Jesse Jackson
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
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Self
LA 92
Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self
4 Little Girls
Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
Uncle Tom
Self (archive footage)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Self (archive footage)
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Filmography
Acting (80)
Movies (63)
South to Black Power
2023as Self
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022as Self
Loudmouth
2022as Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021as Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021as Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021as Self
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021as Self (archive footage)
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021as Himself
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021as Self
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021as Self
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020as Self
Bernie Blackout
2020as Self (archive footage)
Uncle Tom
2020as Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019as Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019as Self (archive footage)
I Am MLK Jr.
2018as Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018as Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018as Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018as Self
LA 92
2017as Self (archive footage)
Fantastic Lies
2016as Himself (archive footage)
Crashing the Party
2016as Self
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016as Self
We Are Many
2014as Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013as Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012as Self (archive Footage)
A Man's Story
2011as Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009as Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009as Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009as Self
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009as Self
Ballou
2008as Himself
The Day the Troubles Began
2008as Self
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007as Self
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002as Self
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002as Self (archive footage)
Last Party 2000
2001as Self
University, Inc.
1999as Self (Archive Footage)
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999as Self
4 Little Girls
1997as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996as Self (archive footage)
The Soul of Stax
1994as Self
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993as Self
Decade
1989as Self
Route One/USA
1989as Self
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988as On Screen Narrator
In Remembrance of Martin
1986as Self
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983as Self
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
A Matter of Respect
1980
A Decade of Struggle
1980as Self
Wattstax
1973as Self
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
Save the Children
1973as Self
Nationtime
1972as Self
We Are Universal
1971
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970as Self (archive footage)
Operation Breadbasket
1969as Self
Uptight
1968as Self (archive footage)
Dear Mister President
as Self
Television (17)
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021as Self
Obama
2020as Self
Explained
2018as Self (archive footage)
Shut Up and Dribble
2018as Self - Civil Rights Leader
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Robins
2006as Self - Guest
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003as Self
The Chris Rock Show
1997as Self
The Daily Show
1996as Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995as Cocky Locky (voice)
Tanner '88
1988as Himself (uncredited)
A Different World
1987as Himself
Saturday Night Live
1975as Self - Host
Dinah!
1974as Self
World in Action
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