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".
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Movies (41)
South to Black Power
as Self
2023
Loudmouth
as Self
2022
El otro Rey de Chicago
as Self
2022
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
as Self
2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self
2021
September First, Twenty-Twenty
as Himself
2021
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
as Self
2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
as Self
2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Self (archive footage)
2021
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
2020
Stax, le label soul légendaire
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Chicago at the Crossroad
as Self
2019
The Road to Mass Incarceration
as Self
2018
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
as Self
2018
I Am MLK Jr.
as Self
2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self
2018
LA 92
as Self (archive footage)
2017
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
as Self
2016
Crashing the Party
as Self
2016
Fantastic Lies
as Himself (archive footage)
2016
We Are Many
as Self
2014
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self
2013
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
as Self (archive Footage)
2012
A Man's Story
as Self
2011
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
as Self
2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
as Self
2009
Michael Jackson Memorial
as Self
2009
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
as Self
2009
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
The Day the Troubles Began
as Self
2008
Ballou
as Himself
2008
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
as Self
2007
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
as Self (archive footage)
2002
BaadAsssss Cinema
as Self
2002
Last Party 2000
as Self
2001
The Subtext of a Yale Education
as Self
1999
University, Inc.
as Self (Archive Footage)
1999
TV Shows (9)
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
as Self
2021
Obama
as Self
2020
Shut Up and Dribble
as Self - Civil Rights Leader
2018
Explained
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Robins
as Self - Guest
2006
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003