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