Jesse Jackson
Acting
Born 1941-10-08 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996 · Movie
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009 · Movie
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 · Movie
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997 · Movie
LA 92
2017 · Movie
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973 · Movie
I Am MLK Jr.
2018 · Movie
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007 · Movie
Decade
1989 · Movie
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016 · Movie
A Man's Story
2011 · Movie
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Movie
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021 · Movie
Nationtime
1972 · Movie
We Are Many
2014 · Movie
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021 · Movie
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021 · Movie
4 Little Girls
1997 · Movie
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970 · Movie
In Remembrance of Martin
1986 · Movie
Wattstax
1973 · Movie
University, Inc.
1999 · Movie
Last Party 2000
2001 · Movie
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002 · Movie
Uptight
1968 · Movie
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982 · Movie
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021 · Movie
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012 · Movie
Route One/USA
1989 · Movie
Bernie Blackout
2020 · Movie
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002 · Movie
Fantastic Lies
2016 · Movie
Save the Children
1973 · Movie
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009 · Movie
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009 · Movie
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993 · Movie
Loudmouth
2022 · Movie
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009 · Movie
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019 · Movie
South to Black Power
2023 · Movie
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018 · Movie
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018 · Movie
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021 · Movie
Operation Breadbasket
1969 · Movie
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999 · Movie
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021 · Movie
Crashing the Party
2016 · Movie
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021 · Movie
The Soul of Stax
1994 · Movie
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009 · Movie
A Decade of Struggle
1980 · Movie
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019 · Movie
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022 · Movie
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992 · Movie
A Matter of Respect
1980 · Movie