Jesse Jackson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) 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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jesse Jackson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Oct 8, 1941 In Greenville, South Carolina
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 40
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Uptight 1968-12-28
- Latest Project:
- Movie Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over 2021-09-11
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Killing Martin Luther King Jr. | Himself | 2021-03-01 |
| Movie | Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street | Self (archive footage) | 2021-04-23 |
| Movie | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Self (archive footage) | 2021-07-02 |
| Movie | Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over | Self | 2021-09-11 |
| Movie | Uncle Tom | Self (archive footage) | 2020-06-19 |
| Movie | Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media | Self | 2018-03-24 |
| Movie | The Road to Mass Incarceration | Self | 2018-06-13 |
| Movie | I Am MLK Jr. | Self | 2018-04-04 |
| Movie | Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America | Self | 2018-04-04 |
| Movie | Crashing the Party | Self | 2016-07-21 |
| Movie | '85: The Greatest Team in Football History | Self | 2016-10-01 |
| Movie | We Are Many | Self | 2014-06-08 |
| Movie | Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic | Self | 2013-04-23 |
| Movie | MLK: The Assassination Tapes | Self (archive Footage) | 2012-02-12 |
| Movie | A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
| Movie | Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel | Self | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | The Nine Lives of Marion Barry | Self | 2009-06-21 |
| Movie | Michael Jackson Memorial | Self | 2009-07-07 |
| Movie | Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound | Self | 2009-10-14 |
| Movie | Ballou | Himself | 2008-09-11 |
| Movie | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 2007-01-16 |
| Movie | BaadAsssss Cinema | Self | 2002-08-14 |
| Movie | Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony | Himself (archive footage) | 2002-09-21 |
| Movie | Motown 40: The Music is Forever | Self | 1998-02-15 |
| Movie | Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory | 1997-01-01 | |
| Movie | 4 Little Girls | Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition | 1997-07-09 |
| Movie | The Journey of the African-American Athlete | Self (archive footage) | 1996-02-12 |
| Series | Baseball | Various (voice) | 1994-09-18 |
| Movie | Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham | Himself | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | Malcolm X | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1992-11-18 |
| Movie | Route One/USA | Self | 1989-09-10 |
| Series | Tanner '88 | 1988-02-15 | |
| Movie | In Remembrance of Martin | Self | 1986-02-08 |
| Movie | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | Self - Audience Member (uncredited) | 1982-03-12 |
| Movie | A Decade of Struggle | Self | 1980-06-01 |
| Movie | Save the Children | Self | 1973-05-13 |
| Movie | Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 | Self/Cameo (archive footage) | 1973-06-02 |
| Movie | Nationtime | Self | 1972-11-01 |
| Movie | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | 1970-03-24 |
| Movie | Uptight | Self | 1968-12-28 |