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