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'.
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
63
Gender
Male
Birthday
1941-10-08
Place of Birth
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Also Known As
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
Known For
Punch 9 for Harold Washington 
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip 
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony 
BaadAsssss Cinema 
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story 
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 
University, Inc. 
The Subtext of a Yale Education 
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel 
A Man's Story 
The Soul of Stax 
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street 
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry 
Stax, le label soul légendaire 
Chicago at the Crossroad 
Uptight 
Ballou 
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War 
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory 
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic 
Operation Breadbasket 
Crashing the Party 
Michael Jackson Memorial Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy 
The Road to Mass Incarceration 
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis 
We Are Many 
MLK: The Assassination Tapes 
Loudmouth 
El otro Rey de Chicago 
4 Little Girls 
A Matter of Respect Jackie Robinson: An American Journey 
South to Black Power 
Anecdotes about Fidel 
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History 
Save the Children 
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound 
Fantastic Lies 
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America 
A Decade of Struggle 
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham 
Route One/USA Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story 
In Remembrance of Martin 
Decade 
Nationtime 
The Journey of the African-American Athlete 
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 
I Am MLK Jr. 
Killing Martin Luther King Jr. 
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over 
Last Party 2000 
September First, Twenty-Twenty 
Bernie Blackout We Are Universal Dear Mister President 
LA 92 The Day the Troubles Began 
Wattstax 
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.