Jesse Jackson
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'.
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Dear Mister President
TBA · Movie · Self
3.0Hollywood Black
2024 · TV · Self (archive footage) · 4 ep
3.5South to Black Power
2023 · Movie · Self
6.0Loudmouth
2022 · Movie · Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022 · Movie · Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021 · Movie
6.5Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021 · Movie · Self
5.3Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021 · TV · Self · 3 ep
7.6Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 · Movie · Self
9.0September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021 · Movie · Himself
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021 · Movie · Self
7.4Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021 · Movie · Self (archive footage)