Jesse Jackson
Acting 1941-10-08 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'.
Known For
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BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
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A Man's Story
2011
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
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Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
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Uptight
1968
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Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
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Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
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Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
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Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
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University, Inc.
1999
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The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
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King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
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The Soul of Stax
1994
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Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
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Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
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Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
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The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
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Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021