Jesse Jackson
ActorJesse 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'.
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South to Black Power
2023
Self
Loudmouth
2022
Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
Self (archive footage)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
Self
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
Himself
- Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020
Self
Bernie Blackout
2020
Self (archive footage)
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
Self
- Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
Self
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
Self
LA 92
2017
Self (archive footage)
Crashing the Party
2016
Self
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
Self
Fantastic Lies
2016
Himself (archive footage)
We Are Many
2014
Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
Self (archive Footage)
A Man's Story
2011
Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
Self
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
Self
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009
Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
Self
- Ballou
Ballou
2008
Himself
- The Day the Troubles Began
The Day the Troubles Began
2008
Self
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
Self
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
Self (archive footage)
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Self
Last Party 2000
2001
Self
University, Inc.
1999
Self (Archive Footage)
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
Self
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
4 Little Girls
1997
Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996
Self (archive footage)
The Soul of Stax
1994
Self
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993
Self
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992
Self
Route One/USA
1989
Self
Decade
1989
Self
- Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988
On Screen Narrator
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
Self
- Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983
Self
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
A Matter of Respect
1980
A Decade of Struggle
1980
Self
Save the Children
1973
Self
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973
Self/Cameo (archive footage)
Wattstax
1973
Self
Nationtime: Gary
1972
Self
- We Are Universal
We Are Universal
1971
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Self (archive footage)
Operation Breadbasket
1969
Self
Uptight
1968
Self (archive footage)
- Dear Mister President
Dear Mister President
Self
