Cast
Jesse Jackson
Acting
Cast
Jesse Jackson
Known for
Acting
Born
1941-10-08
From
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Died
2026-02-17
Also known as Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
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'.
LA 92
as Self (archive footage)
BaadAsssss Cinema
as Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self
Last Party 2000
as Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Self (archive footage)
Nationtime
as Self
Michael Jackson Memorial
as Self
A Man's Story
as Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
as Self
4 Little Girls
as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
as Self
Uptight
as Self (archive footage)
Decade
as Self
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
as Self (archive footage)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
as Self
Fantastic Lies
as Himself (archive footage)
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
as Self (archive footage)
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
as Self
Wattstax
as Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration
as Self
We Are Many
as Self
Operation Breadbasket
as Self
Crashing the Party
as Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
as Self
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
South to Black Power
as Self
In Remembrance of Martin
as Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
as Self
Route One/USA
as Self
Loudmouth
as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
as On Screen Narrator
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
as Self
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
as Self
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
Save the Children
as Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
as Self
University, Inc.
as Self (Archive Footage)
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
as Self (archive Footage)
Bernie Blackout
as Self (archive footage)
We Are Universal
Chicago at the Crossroad
as Self
Dear Mister President
as Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
as Self (archive footage)
I Am MLK Jr.
as Self
Ballou
as Himself
A Matter of Respect
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
as Self
The Soul of Stax
as Self
The Subtext of a Yale Education
as Self
El otro Rey de Chicago
as Self
A Decade of Struggle
as Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty
as Himself
The Day the Troubles Began
as Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
as Self
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
as Self
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
as Self