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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) 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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jesse Jackson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Killing Martin Luther King Jr. | Himself | 2021-03-01 |
Movie | Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street | Self (archive footage) | 2021-04-23 |
Movie | Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story | Self | 2021-05-05 |
Movie | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Self (archive footage) | 2021-07-02 |
Series | Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union | Self | 2021-08-03 |
Movie | Uncle Tom | Self (archive footage) | 2020-06-19 |
Movie | Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media | Self | 2018-03-24 |
Movie | The Road to Mass Incarceration | Self | 2018-06-13 |
Movie | Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America | Self | 2018-04-04 |
Movie | I Am MLK Jr. | Self | 2018-04-04 |
Movie | Fantastic Lies | Himself (archive footage) | 2016-03-13 |
Movie | '85: The Greatest Team in Football History | Self | 2016-10-01 |
Movie | We Are Many | Self | 2014-06-08 |
Movie | Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic | Self | 2013-04-23 |
Movie | A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
Movie | The Nine Lives of Marion Barry | Himself | 2009-08-10 |
Movie | Michael Jackson Memorial | Self | 2009-07-07 |
Series | Joy Behar: Say Anything! | Unknown | 2009-09-29 |
Movie | Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel | Self | 2009-09-12 |
Movie | Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound | Self | 2009-10-14 |
Movie | Ballou | Himself | 2008-09-11 |
Movie | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 2007-01-16 |
Series | The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer | Unknown | 2005-08-08 |
Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
Series | Real Time with Bill Maher | Unknown | 2003-02-21 |
Movie | BaadAsssss Cinema | Self | 2002-08-14 |
Movie | Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony | Self (archive footage) | 2002-09-21 |
Movie | Motown 40: The Music is Forever | Self | 1998-02-15 |
Movie | Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory | 1997-01-01 | |
Movie | 4 Little Girls | Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition | 1997-07-09 |
Series | The Daily Show | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
Movie | The Soul of Stax | 1994-01-01 | |
Series | Baseball | Various (voice) | 1994-09-18 |
Movie | Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham | Himself | 1993-01-01 |
Movie | Decade | Self | 1989-12-09 |
Series | Tanner '88 | 1988-02-15 | |
Movie | In Remembrance of Martin | Self | 1986-02-08 |
Movie | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | Self - Audience Member (uncredited) | 1982-03-12 |
Movie | A Decade of Struggle | Self | 1980-06-01 |
Series | Saturday Night Live | Unknown | 1975-10-11 |
Movie | Save the Children | Self | 1973-05-13 |
Movie | Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 | Self/Cameo (archive footage) | 1973-06-02 |
Movie | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | 1970-03-24 |
Movie | Uptight | Self | 1968-12-28 |