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Jesse Jackson

Born

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".

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Movies starring Jesse:

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