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Actor
Jesse Jackson
Acting1941Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Biography
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'.
Credits
85- 2024
Hollywood Blackas Self (archive footage) · 4 episodesTV show - 2023
South to Black Poweras SelfMovie - 2022
Loudmouthas Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)Movie - 2022
El otro Rey de Chicagoas SelfMovie - 2021
Punch 9 for Harold WashingtonMovie - 2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Overas SelfMovie - 2021
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Unionas Self · 3 episodesTV show - 2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)as SelfMovie - 2021
September First, Twenty-Twentyas HimselfMovie - 2021
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Storyas SelfMovie - 2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Streetas Self (archive footage)Movie - 2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.as SelfMovie
