Jesse Jackson
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 8 October 1941 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA
- Died
- 17 February 2026
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'.
Known for
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- 2026Dear Mister President as Self
- 2023South to Black Power as Self
- 2022Loudmouth as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
- 2022El otro Rey de Chicago as Self
- 2021Punch 9 for Harold Washington
- 2021Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over as Self
- 2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) as Self
- 2021September First, Twenty-Twenty as Himself
- 2021Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story as Self
- 2021Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street as Self (archive footage)
- 2021Killing Martin Luther King Jr. as Self
- 2021Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy as Self (archive footage)
- 2020Uncle Tom as Self (archive footage)
- 2020Bernie Blackout as Self (archive footage)
- 2020Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story as Self
- 2020Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story as Self
- 2019Stax, le label soul légendaire as Self (archive footage)
- 2019Chicago at the Crossroad as Self
- 2018The Road to Mass Incarceration as Self
- 2018Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America as Self
- 2018I Am MLK Jr. as Self
- 2018Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media as Self
- 2017LA 92 as Self (archive footage)
- 2016'85: The Greatest Team in Football History as Self
- 2016Crashing the Party as Self
- 2016Fantastic Lies as Himself (archive footage)
- 2014We Are Many as Self
- 2013Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic as Self
- 2012MLK: The Assassination Tapes as Self (archive Footage)
- 2011A Man's Story as Self
- 2009Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound as Self
- 2009Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel as Self
- 2009Michael Jackson Memorial as Self
- 2009The Nine Lives of Marion Barry as Self
- 2009Anecdotes about Fidel
- 2008The Day the Troubles Began as Self
- 2008Ballou as Himself
- 2007King: Man of Peace in a Time of War as Self
- 2002Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony as Self (archive footage)
- 2002BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
- 2001Last Party 2000 as Self
- 1999Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special as (archive footage)
- 1999The Subtext of a Yale Education as Self
- 1999University, Inc. as Self (Archive Footage)
- 19974 Little Girls as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
- 1997Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
- 1996The Journey of the African-American Athlete as Self (archive footage)
- 1994The Soul of Stax as Self
- 1993Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham as Self
- 1992America's Political Parties: Power and Principle as Self
- 1989Decade as Self
- 1989Route One/USA as Self
- 1988Jackie Robinson: An American Journey as On Screen Narrator
- 1986In Remembrance of Martin as Self
- 1983Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy as Self
- 1982Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
- 1980A Decade of Struggle as Self
- 1980A Matter of Respect
- 1973Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
- 1973Save the Children as Self
- 1973Wattstax as Self
- 1972Nationtime: Gary as Self
- 1971We Are Universal
- 1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)
- 1969Operation Breadbasket as Self
- 1968Uptight as Self (archive footage)