Acting
Jesse Jackson
Born October 8, 1941 Died February 17, 2026 Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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'.
Filmography
3.5
South to Black Power
2023·Documentary
6.0
Loudmouth
2022·Documentary
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El otro Rey de Chicago
2022·Documentary
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Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021·Documentary
6.5
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021·Documentary
7.6
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021·Music
9.0
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021·Documentary
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Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
7.4
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021·Documentary
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Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021·Documentary
6.8
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021·Documentary
7.0
Bernie Blackout
2020·Documentary
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Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019·Documentary
4.0
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019·Crime
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The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018·Documentary
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Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018·Documentary
8.8
I Am MLK Jr.
2018·Documentary
7.7
LA 92
2017·History
8.2
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016·Documentary
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Crashing the Party
2016·Documentary
7.2
Fantastic Lies
2016·Documentary
6.7
We Are Many
2014·Documentary
7.1
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013·Documentary
7.4
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012·Documentary