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