JESSE JACKSON

Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson
Gender: Male
Known for: Acting
Birthday: October 8, 1941
Place of Birth: Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Biography

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is 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 was the founder 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 work

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Filmography

Starring

2023·
South to Black Power
Self
2021·
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Self
TBA·
Dear Mister President
Himself
2022·
El otro Rey de Chicago
Self
2022·
Loudmouth
Self
2021·
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Himself
2021·
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Self
2021·
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Self
2021·
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Self (archive footage)
2021·
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Self (archive footage)
2021·
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Self (archive footage)
2021·
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Self
2021·
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2020·
Bernie Blackout
Self (archive footage)
2020·
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Self
2020·
Uncle Tom
Self (archive footage)
2019·
Chicago at the Crossroad
Self
2019·
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Self (archive footage)
2018·
Explained
Self (archive footage)
2018·
Shut Up and Dribble
Self - Civil Rights Leader
2018·
I Am MLK Jr.
Self
2018·
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self
2018·
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Self
2018·
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Self
2016·
Fantastic Lies
Himself (archive footage)
2016·
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Self
2016·
Crashing the Party
Self
2014·
We Are Many
Self
2013·
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self
2012·
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Self (archive Footage)
2011·
A Man's Story
Self
2009·
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009·
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Self
2009·
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009·
Michael Jackson Memorial
Self
2009·
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Self
2009·
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Self
2008·
Ballou
Himself
2007·
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Self
2006·
Robins
Self - Guest
2005·
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2003·
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003·
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2002·
BaadAsssss Cinema
Self
2002·
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Self (archive footage)
2001·
Last Party 2000
Self
1999·
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Self
1999·
University, Inc.
Self (Archive Footage)
1997·
The Chris Rock Show
Self
1997·
4 Little Girls
Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
1997·
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1996·
The Daily Show
Self
1996·
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Self (archive footage)
1995·
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Cocky Locky (voice)
1994·
Baseball
Various (voice)
1994·
The Soul of Stax
Self
1993·
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Self
1989·
Decade
Self
1989·
Route One/USA
Self
1988·
Tanner '88
Himself (uncredited)
1988·
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
On Screen Narrator
1987·
A Different World
Himself
1986·
In Remembrance of Martin
Self
1983·
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Self
1982·
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1980·
A Decade of Struggle
Self
1980·
A Matter of Respect
1975·
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1974·
Dinah!
Self
1973·
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
Self/Cameo (archive footage)
1973·
Save the Children
Self
1972·
Nationtime
Self
1971·
We Are Universal
1970·
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
1969·
Operation Breadbasket
Self
1968·
Uptight
Self (archive footage)