Acting
Jesse Jackson
Born 1941-10-08 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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
Malcolm X
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
'85: The Greatest Team in Pro Football History
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
4 Little Girls
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
I Am MLK Jr.
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
A Man's Story
Fantastic Lies
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Uptight
BaadAsssss Cinema
We Are Many
Michael Jackson Memorial
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Route One/USA
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
In Remembrance of Martin
Chicago at the Crossroad
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Save the Children
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
The Subtext of a Yale Education
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Obama
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
Nationtime
Crashing the Party
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
University, Inc.
A Decade of Struggle
Decade
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
The Soul of Stax