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
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
(2021)
Self (archive footage)
Full Filmography
Acting
Uptight
(1968)
Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
(1970)
Self (archive footage)
Nationtime
(1972)
Self
Save the Children
(1973)
Self
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
(1973)
Self/Cameo (archive footage)
A Decade of Struggle
(1980)
Self
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
(1982)
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
(1983)
Self
In Remembrance of Martin
(1986)
Self
Route One/USA
(1989)
Self
Decade
(1989)
Self
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
(1993)
Himself
The Soul of Stax
(1994)
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
(1996)
Self (archive footage)
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
(1997)
4 Little Girls
(1997)
Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
University, Inc.
(1999)
Self (Archive Footage)
The Subtext of a Yale Education
(1999)
Self
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
(2002)
Self (archive footage)
BaadAsssss Cinema
(2002)
Self
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
(2007)
Himself
Ballou
(2008)
Himself
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
(2009)
Self
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
(2009)
Self
Michael Jackson Memorial
(2009)
Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
(2009)
Self
A Man's Story
(2011)
Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
(2012)
Self (archive Footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
(2013)
Self
We Are Many
(2014)
Self
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
(2016)
Self
Fantastic Lies
(2016)
Himself (archive footage)
Crashing the Party
(2016)
Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
(2018)
Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
(2018)
Self
I Am MLK Jr.
(2018)
Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration
(2018)
Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
(2019)
Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad
(2019)
Self
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
(2020)
Self
Uncle Tom
(2020)
Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
(2021)
Himself
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
(2021)
Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
(2021)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
(2021)
Self (archive footage)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
(2021)
Self (archive footage)
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
(2021)
Self
Loudmouth
(2022)
Self
El otro Rey de Chicago
(2022)
Jesse Jackson