Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson

10/8/1941 – 2/17/2026Greenville, South Carolina, USA

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'.

Filmography (83 titles)

Hollywood Black3.7Show

Hollywood Black

Self (archive footage) · 2024

South to Black Power3.5Movie

South to Black Power

Self · 2023

Loudmouth6.0Movie

Loudmouth

Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage) · 2022

El otro Rey de ChicagoMovie

El otro Rey de Chicago

Self · 2022

Punch 9 for Harold WashingtonMovie

Punch 9 for Harold Washington

2021

Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over6.5Movie

Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over

Self · 2021

Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union5.3Show

Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

Self · 2021

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)7.6Movie

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Self · 2021

September First, Twenty-Twenty9.0Movie

September First, Twenty-Twenty

Himself · 2021

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel StoryMovie

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

Self · 2021

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street7.4Movie

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Self (archive footage) · 2021

Killing Martin Luther King Jr.Movie

Killing Martin Luther King Jr.

Self · 2021

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy6.8Movie

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

Self (archive footage) · 2021

ObamaShow

Obama

Self · 2020

Bernie Blackout7.0Movie

Bernie Blackout

Self (archive footage) · 2020

Movie

Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story

Self · 2020

Stax, le label soul légendaireMovie

Stax, le label soul légendaire

Self (archive footage) · 2019

Chicago at the Crossroad4.0Movie

Chicago at the Crossroad

Self · 2019

Shut Up and Dribble1.0Show

Shut Up and Dribble

Self - Civil Rights Leader · 2018

The Road to Mass IncarcerationMovie

The Road to Mass Incarceration

Self · 2018

Explained7.5Show

Explained

Self (archive footage) · 2018

Rise Up: The Movement that Changed AmericaMovie

Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

Self · 2018

I Am MLK Jr.8.8Movie

I Am MLK Jr.

Self · 2018

Movie

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

Self · 2018

LA 927.7Movie

LA 92

Self (archive footage) · 2017

'85: The Greatest Team in Football History8.2Movie

'85: The Greatest Team in Football History

Self · 2016

Crashing the PartyMovie

Crashing the Party

Self · 2016

Fantastic Lies7.2Movie

Fantastic Lies

Himself (archive footage) · 2016

We Are Many6.7Movie

We Are Many

Self · 2014

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic7.1Movie

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

Self · 2013