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