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".

Filmography

Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Self (archive footage)
BaadAsssss Cinema
Self
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Self
University, Inc.
Self (Archive Footage)
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Self
A Man's Story
Self
The Soul of Stax
Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Self (archive footage)
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad
Self
Uptight
Self (archive footage)
Ballou
Himself
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Self
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self
Operation Breadbasket
Self
Crashing the Party
Self
Michael Jackson Memorial
Self
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Self
Uncle Tom
Self (archive footage)
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
We Are Many
Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Self (archive Footage)
Loudmouth
Self
El otro Rey de Chicago
Self
4 Little Girls
Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
A Matter of Respect
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
On Screen Narrator
South to Black Power
Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Self (archive footage)
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Self
Save the Children
Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Self
Fantastic Lies
Himself (archive footage)
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Self
A Decade of Struggle
Self
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Self
Route One/USA
Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Self
In Remembrance of Martin
Self
Decade
Self
Nationtime
Self
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Self (archive footage)
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
Self/Cameo (archive footage)
I Am MLK Jr.
Self
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Self
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Self
Last Party 2000
Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Himself
Bernie Blackout
Self (archive footage)
We Are Universal
Dear Mister President
Self
LA 92
Self (archive footage)
The Day the Troubles Began
Self