Jesse Jackson
- Acting
- October 8, 1941 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA
- February 17, 2026
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'.
Known for
Filmography
- Hollywood Black · Self
- South to Black Power · Self
- Loudmouth · Self
- El otro Rey de Chicago · Self
- Punch 9 for Harold Washington
- Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over · Self
- Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union · Self
- Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) · Self
- September First, Twenty-Twenty · Self
- Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story · Self
- Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street · Self
- Killing Martin Luther King Jr. · Self
- Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy · Self
- Obama · Self
- Bernie Blackout · Self
- Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story · Self
- Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story · Self
- Stax, le label soul légendaire · Self
- Chicago at the Crossroad · Self
- Shut Up and Dribble · Self
- The Road to Mass Incarceration · Self
- Explained · Self
- Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America · Self
- I Am MLK Jr. · Self
- Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media · Self
- Velshi · Self
- LA 92 · Self
- '85: The Greatest Team in Football History · Self
- Crashing the Party · Self
- Fantastic Lies · Self
- We Are Many · Self
- Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic · Self
- MLK: The Assassination Tapes · Self
- A Man's Story · Self
- Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound · Self
- Joy Behar: Say Anything!
- Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel · Self
- Michael Jackson Memorial · Self
- The Nine Lives of Marion Barry · Self
- Anecdotes about Fidel
- The Day the Troubles Began · Self
- Ballou · Self
- King: Man of Peace in a Time of War · Self
- Robins · Self
- The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
- Tanner on Tanner · Self
- Real Time with Bill Maher · Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony · Self
- BaadAsssss Cinema · Self
- Last Party 2000 · Self
- Democracy Now! · Self
- Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special · (archive footage)
- The Subtext of a Yale Education · Self
- University, Inc. · Self
- 4 Little Girls · Self
- The Chris Rock Show · Self
- Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
- The Daily Show · Self
- The Journey of the African-American Athlete · Self
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child · Cocky Locky (Voice)
- Baseball · Various (Voice)
- The Soul of Stax · Self
- Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham · Self
- America's Political Parties: Power and Principle · Self
- Decade · Self
- Route One/USA · Self
- Jackie Robinson: An American Journey · On Screen Narrator
- Tanner '88 · Self
- A Different World · Self
- In Remembrance of Martin · Self
- Not Necessarily the News · Self
- Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy · Self
- Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip · Self
- A Decade of Struggle · Self
- A Matter of Respect
- Saturday Night Live · Self
- Dinah! · Self
- Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 · Self/Cameo (archive footage)
- Save the Children · Self