Acting
Jesse Jackson
Biography
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was 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 founded 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'.
Movies with Jesse Jackson
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Nationtime
1972
Uptight
1968
We Are Many
2014
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
Last Party 2000
2001
4 Little Girls
1997
LA 92
2017
A Man's Story
2011
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
Operation Breadbasket
1969
Fantastic Lies
2016
Bernie Blackout
2020
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
University, Inc.
1999
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
Route One/USA
1989
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
The Day the Troubles Began
2008
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
Save the Children
1973
Wattstax
1973
Crashing the Party
2016
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
South to Black Power
2023
We Are Universal
1971
A Matter of Respect
1980
Decade
1989
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
The Soul of Stax
1994
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
Loudmouth
2022
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
Dear Mister President
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
A Decade of Struggle
1980
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
Ballou
2008
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020
TV Shows with Jesse Jackson
The Daily Show
1996
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Saturday Night Live
1975
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
World in Action
1963
A Different World
1987
Dinah!
1974
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Explained
2018
Robins
2006
Baseball
1994
The Chris Rock Show
1997
Hollywood Black
2024
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Not Necessarily the News
1983
Tanner '88
1988
Tanner on Tanner
2004
Shut Up and Dribble
2018
Obama
2020
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021