Jesse Jackson
Born October 8, 1941 · 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'.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Nationtime: Gary
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Fantastic Lies
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Uptight
University, Inc.
We Are Many
Operation Breadbasket
A Man's Story
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Anecdotes about Fidel
Route One/USA
Michael Jackson Memorial
LA 92
BaadAsssss Cinema
TV Shows
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
World in Action
A Different World
Dinah!
Baseball
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Velshi
Explained
The Chris Rock Show
Robins
Not Necessarily the News
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Hollywood Black
Tanner '88
Shut Up and Dribble
Tanner on Tanner
Obama
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
More Movies
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Wattstax
A Matter of Respect
Last Party 2000
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
I Am MLK Jr.
4 Little Girls
The Road to Mass Incarceration
South to Black Power
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Crashing the Party
A Decade of Struggle
In Remembrance of Martin
Decade
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Save the Children
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Bernie Blackout
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
The Soul of Stax
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Loudmouth
El otro Rey de Chicago
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Chicago at the Crossroad
