Jesse Jackson
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1941-10-08
Place of Birth: Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Popularity: 0.8
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
The Daily Show
1996
Saturday Night Live
1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
A Different World
1987
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
Dinah!
1974
Tanner '88
1988
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Explained
2018
Baseball
1994
The Chris Rock Show
1997
World in Action
1963
Robins
2006
Not Necessarily the News
1983
Hollywood Black
2024
Shut Up and Dribble
2018
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Tanner on Tanner
2004
Nationtime
1972
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
LA 92
2017
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
4 Little Girls
1997
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
A Man's Story
2011
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Obama
2020
Last Party 2000
2001
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
Wattstax
1973
We Are Many
2014
Uptight
1968
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
Decade
1989
Save the Children
1973
Fantastic Lies
2016
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996
Bernie Blackout
2020
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
Route One/USA
1989No Photo
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
South to Black Power
2023
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
Crashing the Party
2016
A Decade of Struggle
1980No Photo
Ballou
2008
Loudmouth
2022
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
A Matter of Respect
1980No Photo
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988
The Soul of Stax
1994
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992
Operation Breadbasket
1969No Photo
Dear Mister President
N/A
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019No Photo
We Are Universal
1971
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
University, Inc.
1999
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021No Photo
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999No Photo
The Day the Troubles Began
2008
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021No Photo