About
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'.
Filmography
South to Black Power2023 · Self
Loudmouth2022 · Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
El otro Rey de Chicago2022 · Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over2021 · Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)2021 · Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty2021 · Himself
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story2021 · Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street2021 · Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.2021 · Self
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy2021 · Self (archive footage)
Bernie Blackout2020 · Self (archive footage)
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story2020 · Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire2019 · Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad2019 · Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration2018 · Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America2018 · Self
I Am MLK Jr.2018 · Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media2018 · Self
LA 922017 · Self (archive footage)