Jesse Jackson
Biography
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
2023
as Self
Loudmouth
2022
as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
as Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
as Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
as Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
as Himself
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
as Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
as Self
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Bernie Blackout
2020
as Self (archive footage)
- No poster
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020
as Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
as Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
as Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
as Self
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
as Self
- No poster
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
as Self
LA 92
2017
as Self (archive footage)
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
as Self
Crashing the Party
2016
as Self
Fantastic Lies
2016
as Himself (archive footage)
We Are Many
2014
as Self