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'.
Movies (55)
South to Black Power
2023
Loudmouth
2022
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
Bernie Blackout
2020
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
LA 92
2017
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
Crashing the Party
2016
Fantastic Lies
2016
We Are Many
2014
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
A Man's Story
2011
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Last Party 2000
2001
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
University, Inc.
1999
4 Little Girls
1997
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996
The Soul of Stax
1994
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992
Decade
1989
Route One/USA
1989
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
A Decade of Struggle
1980
A Matter of Respect
1980
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973
Save the Children
1973
Wattstax
1973
Nationtime
1972
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Operation Breadbasket
1969
Uptight
1968
TV Shows (22)
Hollywood Black
2024
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
Obama
2020
Shut Up and Dribble
2018
Explained
2018
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Robins
2006
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
Tanner on Tanner
2004
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Chris Rock Show
1997
The Daily Show
1996
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Baseball
1994
Tanner '88
1988
A Different World
1987
Not Necessarily the News
1983
Saturday Night Live
1975
Saturday Night Live
1975
Dinah!
1974
World in Action
1963