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