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
Uptight (1968)
as Self (archive footage)
We Are Many (2014)
as Self
University, Inc. (1999)
as Self (Archive Footage)
Operation Breadbasket (1969)
as Self
Nationtime: Gary (1972)
as Self
Fantastic Lies (2016)
as Himself (archive footage)
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle (1992)
as Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington (2021)
Actor
I Am MLK Jr. (2018)
as Self
LA 92 (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Day the Troubles Began (2008)
as Self
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999)
as (archive footage)
MLK: The Assassination Tapes (2012)
as Self (archive Footage)
Anecdotes about Fidel (2009)
Actor
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 (1973)
as Self/Cameo (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
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
as Self (archive footage)
A Man's Story (2011)
as Self
A Matter of Respect (1980)
Actor
Route One/USA (1989)
as Self
The Subtext of a Yale Education (1999)
as Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013)
as Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty (2021)
as Himself
Crashing the Party (2016)
as Self
We Are Universal (1971)
Actor
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story (2020)
as Self
Wattstax (1973)
as Self
Texas, USA (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
The Journey of the African-American Athlete (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over (2021)
as Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media (2018)
as Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound (2009)
as Self
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982)
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History (2016)
as Self
BaadAsssss Cinema (2002)
as Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)
as Self
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War (2007)
as Self
South to Black Power (2023)
as Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration (2018)
as Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story (2021)
as Self
In Remembrance of Martin (1986)
as Self
Michael Jackson Memorial (2009)
as Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America (2018)
as Self
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry (2009)
as Self
Save the Children (1973)
as Self
Killing Martin Luther King Jr. (2021)
as Self
A Decade of Struggle (1980)
as Self
The Soul of Stax (1994)
as Self
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory (1997)
Actor
Last Party 2000 (2001)
as Self
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy (1983)
as Self
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey (1988)
as On Screen Narrator
Decade (1989)
as Self
Chicago at the Crossroad (2019)
as Self
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham (1993)
as Self
El otro Rey de Chicago (2022)
as Self
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story (2020)
as Self
Dear Mister President (—)
as Self
Bernie Blackout (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Loudmouth (2022)
as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
Ballou (2008)
as Himself