Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 08, 1941
Died
Feb 17, 2026
Place of Birth
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Credits
85 titles
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'.
Known For
Filmography
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
South to Black Power
Self
Loudmouth
Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
El otro Rey de Chicago
Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Self
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Himself
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Self
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Self (archive footage)
Obama
Self
Bernie Blackout
Self (archive footage)
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad
Self
Shut Up and Dribble
Self - Civil Rights Leader
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Self
Explained
Self (archive footage)
I Am MLK Jr.
Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self
Velshi
Self (archive footage)
LA 92
Self (archive footage)
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Self
Crashing the Party
Self
Fantastic Lies
Himself (archive footage)
We Are Many
Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Self (archive Footage)
A Man's Story
Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Self
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Self
Michael Jackson Memorial
Self
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
The Day the Troubles Began
Self
Ballou
Himself
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Self
Robins
Self - Guest
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
Tanner on Tanner
Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Self (archive footage)
BaadAsssss Cinema
Self
Last Party 2000
Self