Jesse Jackson

Personal Info

Birthday

October 8, 1941

(83 years old)

Place of Birth

Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Also Known As

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.

Jesse Jackson

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".

Known For

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Baseball

Jackie Robinson: An American Journey

Filmography

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