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
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Texas, USA
Fantastic Lies
University, Inc.
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Uptight
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
I Am MLK Jr.
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Operation Breadbasket
We Are Many
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
4 Little Girls
Anecdotes about Fidel
A Man's Story
TV Shows
Democracy Now!
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
A Different World
World in Action
Dinah!
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The Chris Rock Show
Explained
Robins
Not Necessarily the News
Baseball
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Tanner '88
Hollywood Black
Obama
Shut Up and Dribble
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Tanner on Tanner
More Movies
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
LA 92
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
Wattstax
Nationtime: Gary
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
BaadAsssss Cinema
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Route One/USA
In Remembrance of Martin
South to Black Power
Last Party 2000
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
A Matter of Respect
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
A Decade of Struggle
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Decade
The Soul of Stax
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Crashing the Party
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Save the Children
Bernie Blackout
Michael Jackson Memorial
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Chicago at the Crossroad
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story
Loudmouth
Hate Crimes in the Heartland
