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