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".
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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Filmography (Movies)
South to Black Power
Character:Self
Release Date:28/11/2023
Loudmouth
Character:Self
Release Date:09/12/2022
El otro Rey de Chicago
Character:Self
Release Date:18/04/2022
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Character:
Release Date:13/10/2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Character:Self
Release Date:11/09/2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Character:Self
Release Date:02/07/2021
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Character:Himself
Release Date:10/05/2021
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Character:Self
Release Date:05/05/2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:23/04/2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Character:Self
Release Date:01/03/2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:11/01/2021
Uncle Tom
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:19/06/2020
Bernie Blackout
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:13/05/2020
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Character:Self
Release Date:27/01/2020
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:26/07/2019
Chicago at the Crossroad
Character:Self
Release Date:01/06/2019
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Character:Self
Release Date:13/06/2018
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Character:Self
Release Date:04/04/2018
I Am MLK Jr.
Character:Self
Release Date:04/04/2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Character:Self
Release Date:24/03/2018
LA 92
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:28/04/2017
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Character:Self
Release Date:01/10/2016
Crashing the Party
Character:Self
Release Date:21/07/2016
Fantastic Lies
Character:Himself (archive footage)
Release Date:13/03/2016
We Are Many
Character:Self
Release Date:08/06/2014
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Character:Self
Release Date:23/04/2013
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Character:Self (archive Footage)
Release Date:12/02/2012
A Man's Story
Character:Self
Release Date:08/10/2011
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Character:Self
Release Date:14/10/2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Character:Self
Release Date:12/09/2009
Michael Jackson Memorial
Character:Self
Release Date:07/07/2009
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Character:Self
Release Date:21/06/2009
Anecdotes about Fidel
Character:
Release Date:01/01/2009
The Day the Troubles Began
Character:Self
Release Date:06/10/2008
Ballou
Character:Himself
Release Date:11/09/2008
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Character:Self
Release Date:16/01/2007
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:21/09/2002
BaadAsssss Cinema
Character:Self
Release Date:14/08/2002
Last Party 2000
Character:Self
Release Date:02/11/2001
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Character:Self
Release Date:24/09/1999
University, Inc.
Character:Self (Archive Footage)
Release Date:10/09/1999
4 Little Girls
Character:Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
Release Date:09/07/1997
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
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Release Date:01/01/1997
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:12/02/1996
The Soul of Stax
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1994
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1993
Decade
Character:Self
Release Date:09/12/1989
Route One/USA
Character:Self
Release Date:10/09/1989
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
Character:On Screen Narrator
Release Date:15/08/1988
In Remembrance of Martin
Character:Self
Release Date:08/02/1986
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1983
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Character:Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Release Date:12/03/1982
A Decade of Struggle
Character:Self
Release Date:01/06/1980
A Matter of Respect
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1980
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
Character:Self/Cameo (archive footage)
Release Date:02/06/1973
Save the Children
Character:Self
Release Date:13/05/1973
Nationtime
Character:Self
Release Date:01/11/1972
We Are Universal
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1971
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:24/03/1970
Operation Breadbasket
Character:Self
Release Date:07/07/1969
Uptight
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:28/12/1968
Television Appearances
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Character:Self
Obama
Character:Self
Shut Up and Dribble
Character:Self - Civil Rights Leader
Explained
Character:Self (archive footage)
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Character:
Robins
Character:Self - Guest
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
Character:
Real Time with Bill Maher
Character:Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Character:Self
The Chris Rock Show
Character:Self
The Daily Show
Character:Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character:Cocky Locky (voice)
Baseball
Character:Various (voice)
Tanner '88
Character:Himself (uncredited)
A Different World
Character:Himself
Saturday Night Live
Character:Self - Host
Dinah!
Character:Self
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