Jesse Jackson
Born:
1941-10-08
From:
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'.
Acting
South to Black Power
Loudmouth
El otro Rey de Chicago
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Bernie Blackout
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Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Chicago at the Crossroad
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
I Am MLK Jr.
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Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
LA 92
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Crashing the Party
Fantastic Lies
We Are Many