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Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson

Personal Info

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1941-10-08 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Jesse Jackson

Biography

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is 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 was the founder 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

Acting

Dear Mister President
as Himself
(2023)
South to Black Power
as Self
(2022)
Loudmouth
as Self
(2022)
El otro Rey de Chicago
as Self
(2021)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
as Self
(2021)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
as Self
(2021)
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
(2021)
September First, Twenty-Twenty
as Himself
(2021)
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
as Self
(2020)
Uncle Tom
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
Bernie Blackout
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
as Self
(2019)
Chicago at the Crossroad
as Self
(2019)
Stax, le label soul légendaire
as Self (archive footage)
(2018)
The Road to Mass Incarceration
as Self
(2018)
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self
(2018)
I Am MLK Jr.
as Self
(2018)
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
as Self
(2016)
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
as Self
(2016)
Fantastic Lies
as Himself (archive footage)
(2016)
Crashing the Party
as Self
(2014)
We Are Many
as Self
(2013)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self
(2012)
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
as Self (archive Footage)
(2011)
A Man's Story
as Self
(2009)
Michael Jackson Memorial
as Self
(2009)
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
as Self
(2009)
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
as Self
(2009)
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
as Self
(2009)
Anecdotes about Fidel
(2008)
Ballou
as Himself
(2007)
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
as Self
(2002)
BaadAsssss Cinema
as Self
(2002)
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
as Self (archive footage)
(2001)
Last Party 2000
as Self
(1999)
University, Inc.
as Self (Archive Footage)
(1999)
The Subtext of a Yale Education
as Self
(1997)
4 Little Girls
as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
(1997)
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
(1996)
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
as Self (archive footage)
(1994)
The Soul of Stax
as Self
(1993)
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
as Self
(1989)
Decade
as Self
(1989)
Route One/USA
as Self
(1988)
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
as On Screen Narrator
(1986)
In Remembrance of Martin
as Self
(1983)
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
as Self
(1982)
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
(1980)
A Matter of Respect
(1980)
A Decade of Struggle
as Self
(1973)
Save the Children
as Self
(1973)
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
(1972)
Nationtime
as Self
(1971)
We Are Universal
(1970)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
(1969)
Operation Breadbasket
as Self
(1968)
Uptight
as Self (archive footage)