Jesse Jackson
Birthday
1941/10/08 (83 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Also know as
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
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".
Acting
(2021) Punch 9 for Harold Washington
as ---
(1982) Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
(2002) Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
as Self (archive footage)
(2002) BaadAsssss Cinema
as Self
(2021) Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
as Self
(2021) Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self (archive footage)
(1999) University, Inc.
as Self (Archive Footage)
(1999) The Subtext of a Yale Education
as Self
(2009) Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
as Self
(2011) A Man's Story
as Self
(1994) The Soul of Stax
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(2021) Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
(2009) The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
as Self
(2019) Stax, le label soul légendaire
as Self (archive footage)
(2019) Chicago at the Crossroad
as Self
(1968) Uptight
as Self (archive footage)
(2008) Ballou
as Himself
(2007) King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
as Self
(1997) Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
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(2013) Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self
(1969) Operation Breadbasket
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(2016) Crashing the Party
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(2009) Michael Jackson Memorial
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(1983) Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
as Self
(2020) Uncle Tom
as Self (archive footage)
(2018) The Road to Mass Incarceration
as Self
(1970) King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
(2014) We Are Many
as Self
(2012) MLK: The Assassination Tapes
as Self (archive Footage)
(2022) Loudmouth
as Self
(2022) El otro Rey de Chicago
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(1997) 4 Little Girls
as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
(1980) A Matter of Respect
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(1988) Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
as On Screen Narrator
(2023) South to Black Power
as Self
(2009) Anecdotes about Fidel
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(2021) Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Self (archive footage)
(2016) '85: The Greatest Team in Football History
as Self
(1973) Save the Children
as Self
(2009) Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
as Self
(2016) Fantastic Lies
as Himself (archive footage)
(2018) Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
as Self
(1980) A Decade of Struggle
as Self
(1993) Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
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(1989) Route One/USA
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(2018) Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
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(2020) Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
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(1986) In Remembrance of Martin
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(1989) Decade
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(1972) Nationtime
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(1996) The Journey of the African-American Athlete
as Self (archive footage)
(1973) Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
(2018) I Am MLK Jr.
as Self
(2021) Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
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(2021) Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
as Self
(2001) Last Party 2000
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(2021) September First, Twenty-Twenty
as Himself
(2020) Bernie Blackout
as Self (archive footage)
(1971) We Are Universal
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(2003) Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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(1996) The Daily Show
as Self
(2005) The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
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(2006) Robins
as Self - Guest
(2021) Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
as Self
(2018) Shut Up and Dribble
as Self - Civil Rights Leader
(2009) Joy Behar: Say Anything!
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(1988) Tanner '88
as Himself (uncredited)
(1975) Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
(1997) The Chris Rock Show
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(1995) Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Cocky Locky (voice)
(1987) A Different World
as Himself
(1994) Baseball
as Various (voice)
(2003) Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
(2018) Explained
as Self (archive footage)
(1974) Dinah!
as Self