Personal Info
Known Credits
58
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1941-10-08 (84 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Also Known For
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
Acting
2023 --
South to Black Power
| Self
2022 --
Loudmouth
| Self
2022 --
El otro Rey de Chicago
| Self
2021 --
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
|
2021 --
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
| Self
2021 --
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
| Self (archive footage)
2021 --
September First, Twenty-Twenty
| Himself
2021 --
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
| Self
2021 --
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
| Self (archive footage)
2021 --
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
| Self
2021 --
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
| Self (archive footage)
2020 --
Uncle Tom
| Self (archive footage)
2020 --
Bernie Blackout
| Self (archive footage)
2020 --
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
| Self
2019 --
Stax, le label soul légendaire
| Self (archive footage)
2019 --
Chicago at the Crossroad
| Self
2018 --
The Road to Mass Incarceration
| Self
2018 --
I Am MLK Jr.
| Self
2018 --
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
| Self
2018 --
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
| Self
2016 --
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
| Self
2016 --
Crashing the Party
| Self
2016 --
Fantastic Lies
| Himself (archive footage)
2014 --
We Are Many
| Self
2013 --
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
| Self
2012 --
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
| Self (archive Footage)
2011 --
A Man's Story
| Self
2009 --
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
| Self
2009 --
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
| Self
2009 --
Michael Jackson Memorial
| Self
2009 --
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
| Self
2009 --
Anecdotes about Fidel
|
2008 --
Ballou
| Himself
2007 --
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
| Self
2002 --
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
| Self (archive footage)
2002 --
BaadAsssss Cinema
| Self
2001 --
Last Party 2000
| Self
1999 --
The Subtext of a Yale Education
| Self
1999 --
University, Inc.
| Self (Archive Footage)
1997 --
4 Little Girls
| Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
1997 --
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
|
1996 --
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
| Self (archive footage)
1994 --
The Soul of Stax
| Self
1993 --
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
| Himself
1989 --
Decade
| Self
1989 --
Route One/USA
| Self
1988 --
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
| On Screen Narrator
1986 --
In Remembrance of Martin
| Self
1983 --
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
| Self
1982 --
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
| Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1980 --
A Decade of Struggle
| Self
1980 --
A Matter of Respect
|
1973 --
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
| Self/Cameo (archive footage)
1973 --
Save the Children
| Self
1972 --
Nationtime
| Self
1970 --
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
| Self (archive footage)
1969 --
Operation Breadbasket
| Self
1968 --
Uptight
| Self (archive footage)