Jesse Jackson
Biography
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".
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Acting History
2023
South to Black Power as Self
2022Loudmouth as Self
2022El otro Rey de Chicago as Self
2021Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over as Self
2021Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union as Self
2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) as Self (archive footage)
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)
2020Obama as Self
2020Uncle Tom as Self (archive footage)
2020Bernie Blackout as Self (archive footage)
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
2018Shut Up and Dribble as Self - Civil Rights Leader
2018The Road to Mass Incarceration as Self
2018Explained as Self (archive footage)
2018I Am MLK Jr. as Self
2018Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America 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
2009Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel as Self
2009Michael Jackson Memorial as Self
2009The Nine Lives of Marion Barry as Self
2009Anecdotes about Fidel
2008Ballou as Himself
2007King: Man of Peace in a Time of War as Self
2006Robins as Self - Guest
2005The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2003Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony as Self (archive footage)
2002BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
2001Last Party 2000 as Self
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
1997The Chris Rock Show as Self
1997Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996The Journey of the African-American Athlete as Self (archive footage)
1995Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Cocky Locky (voice)
1994Baseball as Various (voice)
1994The Soul of Stax as Self
1993Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham as Self
1989Decade as Self
1989Route One/USA as Self
1988Jackie Robinson: An American Journey as On Screen Narrator
1988Tanner '88 as Himself (uncredited)
1987A Different World as Himself
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
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1974Dinah! as Self
1973Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
1973Save the Children as Self
1972Nationtime 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)
—Dear Mister President as Self