Hollywood Black
2024 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
Jesse Jackson
1941-10-08
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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'.
Filmography
South to Black Power
2023 · Movie
as Self
Loudmouth
2022 · Movie
as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022 · Movie
as Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021 · Movie
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021 · Movie
as Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 · Movie
as Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021 · Movie
as Self
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021 · Movie
as Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021 · Movie
as Himself
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021 · TV Show
as Self
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Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020 · Movie
as Self
Bernie Blackout
2020 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Obama
2020 · TV Show
as Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019 · Movie
as Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018 · Movie
as Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018 · Movie
as Self
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Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 · Movie
as Self
I Am MLK Jr.
2018 · Movie
as Self
Shut Up and Dribble
2018 · TV Show
as Self - Civil Rights Leader
Explained
2018 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
LA 92
2017 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Velshi
2017 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
Crashing the Party
2016 · Movie
as Self
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016 · Movie
as Self
Fantastic Lies
2016 · Movie
as Himself (archive footage)
We Are Many
2014 · Movie
as Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Movie
as Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012 · Movie
as Self (archive Footage)
A Man's Story
2011 · Movie
as Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009 · Movie
as Self
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009 · Movie
as Self
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009 · Movie
as Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009 · Movie
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009 · Movie
as Self
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009 · TV Show
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Ballou
2008 · Movie
as Himself
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The Day the Troubles Began
2008 · Movie
as Self
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007 · Movie
as Self
Robins
2006 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005 · TV Show
Tanner on Tanner
2004 · TV Show
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · TV Show
as Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · TV Show
as Self
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002 · Movie
as Self
Last Party 2000
2001 · Movie
as Self
University, Inc.
1999 · Movie
as Self (Archive Footage)
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999 · Movie
as Self
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997 · Movie
4 Little Girls
1997 · Movie
as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
The Chris Rock Show
1997 · TV Show
as Self
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Daily Show
1996 · TV Show
as Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · TV Show
as Cocky Locky (voice)
The Soul of Stax
1994 · Movie
as Self
Baseball
1994 · TV Show
as Various (voice)
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993 · Movie
as Self
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992 · Movie
as Self
Route One/USA
1989 · Movie
as Self
Decade
1989 · Movie
as Self
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Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988 · Movie
as On Screen Narrator
Tanner '88
1988 · TV Show
as Himself (uncredited)
A Different World
1987 · TV Show
as Himself
In Remembrance of Martin
1986 · Movie
as Self
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Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983 · Movie
as Self
Not Necessarily the News
1983 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982 · Movie
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
A Matter of Respect
1980 · Movie
A Decade of Struggle
1980 · Movie
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975 · TV Show
as Self - Host, Self (uncredited)
Dinah!
1974 · TV Show
as Self
Save the Children
1973 · Movie
as Self
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973 · Movie
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
Wattstax
1973 · Movie
as Self
Nationtime: Gary
1972 · Movie
as Self
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We Are Universal
1971 · Movie
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Operation Breadbasket
1969 · Movie
as Self
Uptight
1968 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
World in Action
1963 · TV Show
No image
Dear Mister President
· Movie
as Self
