Jesse Jackson
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'.
Filmography
South to Black Power
Loudmouth
El otro Rey de Chicago
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Uncle Tom
Bernie Blackout
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Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Chicago at the Crossroad
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
I Am MLK Jr.
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Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
LA 92
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Crashing the Party
Fantastic Lies
We Are Many
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
A Man's Story
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Michael Jackson Memorial
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Anecdotes about Fidel
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The Day the Troubles Began
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Ballou
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
BaadAsssss Cinema
Last Party 2000
The Subtext of a Yale Education
University, Inc.
4 Little Girls
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
The Soul of Stax
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Decade
Route One/USA
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Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
In Remembrance of Martin
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Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
A Decade of Struggle
A Matter of Respect
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
Save the Children
Wattstax
Nationtime
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We Are Universal
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Operation Breadbasket
Uptight
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Dear Mister President