Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Jackson

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Biography

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'.

Films Featuring Jesse Jackson

Punch 9 for Harold Washington

2021

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

19827.4

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

20026.5

BaadAsssss Cinema

20026.0

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

2021

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

20217.6

University, Inc.

19998.0

The Subtext of a Yale Education

1999

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

20096.0

A Man's Story

20116.9

The Soul of Stax

1994

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

20217.4

The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

20095.6

Stax, le label soul légendaire

2019

Chicago at the Crossroad

20194.0

Uptight

19686.8

Ballou

Ballou

20088.0

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

20078.5

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

199710.0

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

20137.1

Operation Breadbasket

1969

Crashing the Party

2016

Michael Jackson Memorial

20098.0

Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy

Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy

19837.0

The Road to Mass Incarceration

2018

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

19707.3

We Are Many

20146.7

MLK: The Assassination Tapes

20127.4

Loudmouth

20226.0

El otro Rey de Chicago

2022

4 Little Girls

19977.1

A Matter of Respect

1980

Jackie Robinson: An American Journey

Jackie Robinson: An American Journey

19887.0

South to Black Power

20233.5

Anecdotes about Fidel

2009

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

20216.8

'85: The Greatest Team in Football History

20168.2

Save the Children

19736.5

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

20096.7

Fantastic Lies

20167.3

Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

2018

A Decade of Struggle

1980

Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham

19937.2

Route One/USA

19897.4

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

2018

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

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

2020

In Remembrance of Martin

19868.0

Decade

19898.5

Nationtime: Gary

19728.0

The Journey of the African-American Athlete

199610.0

Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

19739.0

I Am MLK Jr.

20188.8

Killing Martin Luther King Jr.

2021

Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over

20216.5

Last Party 2000

20016.8

September First, Twenty-Twenty

20219.0

Bernie Blackout

20207.0

We Are Universal

We Are Universal

1971

Dear Mister President

Dear Mister President

LA 92

20177.7

The Day the Troubles Began

The Day the Troubles Began

2008

Wattstax

19736.7

America's Political Parties: Power and Principle

1992