Jesse Jackson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-10-08 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Greenville, South Carolina, USA

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".

Acting

1982

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

2002

1999

University, Inc.

as Self (Archive Footage)

2011

1994

2021

2019

Stax, le label soul légendaire

as Self (archive footage)

1968

Uptight

as Self (archive footage)

2008

Ballou

as Himself

2020

Uncle Tom

as Self (archive footage)

2014

2012

MLK: The Assassination Tapes

as Self (archive Footage)

2022

Loudmouth

as Self

1997

4 Little Girls

as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition

1988

2021

2016

Fantastic Lies

as Himself (archive footage)

1989

1989

Decade

as Self

1972

Nationtime

as Self

1996

2018

2001

2020

Bernie Blackout

as Self (archive footage)

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