Jesse Jackson
Known for: Acting
Born: October 8, 1941
Died: February 17, 2026
Place of birth: Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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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Filmography
64 movies · 22 TV shows, newest first
3.0
Hollywood Black
2024
3.5
South to Black Power
2023
6.0
Loudmouth
2022
NR
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
NR
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
6.5
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
5.3
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
7.6
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
9.0
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
NR
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
7.4
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
NR
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
6.8
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
NR
Obama
2020
7.0
Bernie Blackout
2020NR
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020
NR
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
4.0
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
1.0
Shut Up and Dribble
2018
NR
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
7.5
Explained
2018
NR
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
8.8
I Am MLK Jr.
2018NR
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
NR
Velshi
2017
7.7
LA 92
2017
8.2
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
NR
Crashing the Party
2016
7.2
Fantastic Lies
2016
6.7
We Are Many
2014
7.1
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
7.4
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
6.9
A Man's Story
2011
6.7
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
NR
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
6.0
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
8.0
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009
5.6
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
NR
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009NR
The Day the Troubles Began
20088.0
Ballou
2008
8.5
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
7.8
Robins
2006
3.8
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
10.0
Tanner on Tanner
2004
6.1
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
6.5
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
6.0
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
6.8
Last Party 2000
2001
6.9
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
NR
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
8.0
University, Inc.
1999
7.1
4 Little Girls
1997
4.6
The Chris Rock Show
1997
10.0
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
6.4
The Daily Show
1996
10.0
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996
6.3
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
7.5
Baseball
1994
NR
The Soul of Stax
1994
7.2
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993
NR
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992
8.5
Decade
1989
7.4
Route One/USA
19897.0
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988
6.9
Tanner '88
1988
7.1
A Different World
1987
8.0
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
6.9
Not Necessarily the News
19837.0
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983
7.4
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
NR
A Decade of Struggle
1980
NR
A Matter of Respect
1980
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
7.0
Dinah!
1974
9.0
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973
6.6
Save the Children
1973
6.7
Wattstax
1973
8.0
Nationtime: Gary
1972NR
We Are Universal
1971
7.3
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
NR
Operation Breadbasket
1969
6.8
Uptight
1968
7.0
World in Action
1963NR
Dear Mister President
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