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