Jesse Jackson
Actor
- Born
- October 8, 1941 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA
- Died
- February 17, 2026 (age 84)
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'.
Known for
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
July 2, 2021
LA 92
April 28, 2017
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
March 12, 1982
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
January 11, 2021
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
April 23, 2013
4 Little Girls
July 9, 1997
BaadAsssss Cinema
August 14, 2002
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
April 23, 2021
Fantastic Lies
March 13, 2016
Wattstax
February 4, 1973
Uptight
December 28, 1968
Michael Jackson Memorial
July 7, 2009
Acting65
- 2023South to Black Power as Self
- 2022Loudmouth as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
- 2022El otro Rey de Chicago as Self
- 2021Punch 9 for Harold Washington
- 2021Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over as Self
- 2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) as Self
- 2021September First, Twenty-Twenty as Himself
- 2021Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story as Self
- 2021Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street as Self (archive footage)
- 2021