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'.
84 acting credits
Acting · 84
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
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Explained
2018
World in Action
1963
Baseball
1994
The Chris Rock Show
1997
Robins
2006
Not Necessarily the News
1983
Tanner '88
1988
Shut Up and Dribble
2018
Hollywood Black
2024
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Tanner on Tanner
2004
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009
A Man's Story
2011
LA 92
2017
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
Wattstax
1973
Last Party 2000
2001
Obama
2020
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996
Nationtime
1972
Uptight
1968
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
4 Little Girls
1997
We Are Many
2014
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
Decade
1989
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
Save the Children
1973
Loudmouth
2022
Fantastic Lies
2016
The Soul of Stax
1994
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
South to Black Power
2023
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
Crashing the Party
2016
Route One/USA
1989
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
Operation Breadbasket
1969
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
Ballou
2008
Bernie Blackout
2020
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
A Decade of Struggle
1980
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
University, Inc.
1999
The Day the Troubles Began
2008
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
Dear Mister President
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Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
We Are Universal
1971
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020
A Matter of Respect
1980