Jesse Jackson
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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
Credits
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
as Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013)
as Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
as Self (archive footage)
We Are Many (2014)
as Self
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982)
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Nationtime: Gary (1972)
as Self
Uptight (1968)
as Self (archive footage)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
4 Little Girls (1997)
as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
A Man's Story (2011)
as Self
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History (2016)
as Self
Last Party 2000 (2001)
as Self
LA 92 (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Michael Jackson Memorial (2009)
as Self
University, Inc. (1999)
as Self (Archive Footage)
The Journey of the African-American Athlete (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)
as Self
Operation Breadbasket (1969)
as Self
BaadAsssss Cinema (2002)
as Self
The Day the Troubles Began (2008)
as Self
Anecdotes about Fidel (2009)
Actor
Fantastic Lies (2016)
as Himself (archive footage)
Route One/USA (1989)
as Self
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 (1973)
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War (2007)
as Self
I Am MLK Jr. (2018)
as Self
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over (2021)
as Self
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
The Road to Mass Incarceration (2018)
as Self
Wattstax (1973)
as Self
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle (1992)
as Self
Bernie Blackout (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Crashing the Party (2016)
as Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America (2018)
as Self
In Remembrance of Martin (1986)
as Self
We Are Universal (1971)
Actor
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media (2018)
as Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes (2012)
as Self (archive Footage)
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound (2009)
as Self
South to Black Power (2023)
as Self
Decade (1989)
as Self
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham (1993)
as Self
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy (1983)
as Self
A Matter of Respect (1980)
Actor
Punch 9 for Harold Washington (2021)
Actor
Save the Children (1973)
as Self
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory (1997)
Actor
Loudmouth (2022)
as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
A Decade of Struggle (1980)
as Self
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story (2021)
as Self
The Soul of Stax (1994)
as Self
The Subtext of a Yale Education (1999)
as Self
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey (1988)
as On Screen Narrator
Ballou (2008)
as Himself
El otro Rey de Chicago (2022)
as Self
Dear Mister President (—)
as Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty (2021)
as Himself
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story (2020)
as Self
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry (2009)
as Self
Killing Martin Luther King Jr. (2021)
as Self
Chicago at the Crossroad (2019)
as Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire (2019)
as Self (archive footage)