Jesse Jackson
Actor
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".
Filmography
LA 92
as Self (archive footage) 2017
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited) 1982
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Self (archive footage) 2021
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self 2013
4 Little Girls
as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition 1997
Uncle Tom
as Self (archive footage) 2020
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage) 2021
BaadAsssss Cinema
as Self 2002
Fantastic Lies
as Himself (archive footage) 2016
Michael Jackson Memorial
as Self 2009
Uptight
as Self (archive footage) 1968
We Are Many
as Self 2014
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
as Self 2009
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage) 1970
Route One/USA
as Self 1989
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
as Self 2009