Birthday: Oct 08, 1941
Place of Birth: Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Jesse Jackson

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".

Filmography

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

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