Jesse Jackson

Oct 08, 1941 (83 years old) in Greenville, South Carolina, USA

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

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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

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A Different World

Himself

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Joy Behar: Say Anything!

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The Chris Rock Show

Self

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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Cocky Locky (voice)

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Explained

Self (archive footage)

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Dinah!

Self

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Baseball

Various (voice)

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Tanner '88

Himself (uncredited)

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Shut Up and Dribble

Self - Civil Rights Leader

Credits

Dear Mister President Future

Himself

★ NR
South to Black Power 2023

Self

★ 6
Loudmouth 2022

Self

★ 6
El otro Rey de Chicago 2022

Self

★ NR
Punch 9 for Harold Washington 2021

★ NR
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over 2021

Self

★ 6.5
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union 2021

Self

★ 5.8
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 2021

Self (archive footage)

★ 7.6
September First, Twenty-Twenty 2021

Himself

★ 9
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story 2021

Self

★ NR
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street 2021

Self (archive footage)

★ 7.5
Killing Martin Luther King Jr. 2021

Self

★ NR
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 2021

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.8
Uncle Tom 2020

Self (archive footage)

★ 7.8
Bernie Blackout 2020

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story 2020

Self

★ NR
Stax, le label soul légendaire 2019

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Chicago at the Crossroad 2019

Self

★ 4
Shut Up and Dribble 2018

Self - Civil Rights Leader

★ 1
The Road to Mass Incarceration 2018

Self

★ NR
Explained 2018

Self (archive footage)

★ 7.5
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America 2018

Self

★ NR
I Am MLK Jr. 2018

Self

★ 9.5
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media 2018

Self

★ NR
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History 2016

Self

★ 8.2
Crashing the Party 2016

Self

★ NR
Fantastic Lies 2016

Himself (archive footage)

★ 7.2
We Are Many 2014

Self

★ 6.7
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic 2013

Self

★ 7.1
MLK: The Assassination Tapes 2012

Self (archive Footage)

★ 7.4
A Man's Story 2011

Self

★ 6.9
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound 2009

Self

★ 6.8
Joy Behar: Say Anything! 2009

★ NR
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel 2009

Self

★ 6.3
Michael Jackson Memorial 2009

Self

★ 8
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry 2009

Self

★ 5.6
Anecdotes about Fidel 2009

★ NR
Ballou 2008

Himself

★ 8
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War 2007

Self

★ 8.5
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer 2005

★ 3
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony 2002

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.4
BaadAsssss Cinema 2002

Self

★ 6.1
Last Party 2000 2001

Self

★ 6.1
The Subtext of a Yale Education 1999

Self

★ NR
University, Inc. 1999

Self (Archive Footage)

★ NR
4 Little Girls 1997

Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition

★ 7.2
The Chris Rock Show 1997

Self

★ 4.4
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory 1997

★ 10
The Journey of the African-American Athlete 1996

Self (archive footage)

★ 10
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child 1995

Cocky Locky (voice)

★ 6
Baseball 1994

Various (voice)

★ 7.3
The Soul of Stax 1994

Self

★ NR
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham 1993

Self

★ 6
Decade 1989

Self

★ 7
Route One/USA 1989

Self

★ 7.3
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey 1988

On Screen Narrator

★ NR
Tanner '88 1988

Himself (uncredited)

★ 6.7
A Different World 1987

Himself

★ 7.1
In Remembrance of Martin 1986

Self

★ 9
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy 1983

Self

★ 6
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip 1982

Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

★ 7.3
A Decade of Struggle 1980

Self

★ NR
A Matter of Respect 1980

★ NR
Dinah! 1974

Self

★ 6.7
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 1973

Self/Cameo (archive footage)

★ 9
Save the Children 1973

Self

★ 6.4
Nationtime 1972

Self

★ 8
We Are Universal 1971

★ NR
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis 1970

Self (archive footage)

★ 7.1
Operation Breadbasket 1969

Self

★ NR
Uptight 1968

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.5