Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/8/1941
Place of Birth
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Also Known As
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
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".
Known For
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self (archive footage)
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
as Self (archive footage)
Bernie Blackout
as Self (archive footage)
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
as Self
LA 92
as Self (archive footage)
Nationtime
as Self
Loudmouth
as Self
BaadAsssss Cinema
as Self
University, Inc.
as Self (Archive Footage)
Uptight
as Self (archive footage)
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
as Self
A Man's Story
as Self
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
as Self
South to Black Power
as Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
as Self
Save the Children
as Self
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Self (archive footage)
Michael Jackson Memorial
as Self
Operation Breadbasket
as Self
Career Timeline
2021
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Role unknown
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
as Self
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
as Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self (archive footage)
September First, Twenty-Twenty
as Himself
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
as Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
as Self
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Self (archive footage)