Jesse Jackson

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'.

Born

Oct 08, 1941

Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Died

Feb 17, 2026

Known For

Acting

Movies

67 acting

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Popularity

0.6

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Known For

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

2021

as Self

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

1982

as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

LA 92

2017

as Self (archive footage)

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

2021 • as Self

★ 7.6

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

2021 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 7.4

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

2021 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 6.8

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

1999 • as (archive footage)

★ 6.9

Uptight

1968 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 6.8

Texas, USA

2023 • as Self (archive footage)

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

2013 • as Self

★ 7.1

I Am MLK Jr.

2018 • as Self

★ 8.8

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1970 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 7.4

'85: The Greatest Team in Football History

'85: The Greatest Team in Football History

2016 • as Self

★ 8.2

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

1982 • as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

★ 7.4

Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over

2021 • as Self

★ 6.5

Wattstax

1973 • as Self

★ 6.8

MLK: The Assassination Tapes

2012 • as Self (archive Footage)

★ 7.4

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

2002 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 6.5

A Man's Story

2011 • as Self

★ 6.9

4 Little Girls

1997 • as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition

★ 7.1

Chicago at the Crossroad

2019 • as Self

★ 4.0

We Are Many

2014 • as Self

★ 6.7

University, Inc.

1999 • as Self (Archive Footage)

★ 8.0

LA 92

2017 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 7.8

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

2009 • as Self

★ 6.7

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

2009 • as Self

★ 6.0

movie

The Day the Troubles Began

2008 • as Self

Fantastic Lies

2016 • as Himself (archive footage)

★ 7.2

BaadAsssss Cinema

2002 • as Self

★ 6.0

The Road to Mass Incarceration

2018 • as Self

Michael Jackson Memorial

2009 • as Self

★ 8.0

The Journey of the African-American Athlete

The Journey of the African-American Athlete

1996 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 10.0

A Decade of Struggle

1980 • as Self

South to Black Power

2023 • as Self

★ 3.5

Nationtime: Gary

1972 • as Self

★ 8.0

Last Party 2000

2001 • as Self

★ 6.8

Decade

1989 • as Self

★ 8.5

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

2007 • as Self

★ 8.5

Bernie Blackout

2020 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 7.0

In Remembrance of Martin

1986 • as Self

★ 8.0

Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

1973 • as Self/Cameo (archive footage)

★ 9.0

movie

We Are Universal

1971

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

1997

★ 10.0

Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham

1993 • as Self

★ 7.2

The Subtext of a Yale Education

1999 • as Self

Save the Children

1973 • as Self

★ 6.6

America's Political Parties: Power and Principle

America's Political Parties: Power and Principle

1992 • as Self

Anecdotes about Fidel

2009

Route One/USA

1989 • as Self

★ 7.4

Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy

1983 • as Self

★ 7.0

Loudmouth

2022 • as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)

★ 6.0

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

2021 • as Self

Punch 9 for Harold Washington

2021

movie

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

2018 • as Self

Operation Breadbasket

1969 • as Self

Crashing the Party

2016 • as Self

A Matter of Respect

1980

The Soul of Stax

1994 • as Self

Stax, le label soul légendaire

2019 • as Self (archive footage)

Hate Crimes in the Heartland

2014

★ 7.0

Killing Martin Luther King Jr.

2021 • as Self

September First, Twenty-Twenty

2021 • as Himself

★ 9.0

Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

2018 • as Self

movie

Dear Mister President

• as Self

El otro Rey de Chicago

2022 • as Self

Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story

Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story

2020 • as Self

movie

Jackie Robinson: An American Journey

1988 • as On Screen Narrator

★ 7.0

movie

Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story

2020 • as Self

The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

2009 • as Self

★ 5.6

movie

Ballou

2008 • as Himself

★ 8.0