Jesse Jackson
Known for: Acting
Born: October 8, 1941
Died: February 17, 2026
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
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
Route One/USA
1989
We Are Universal
1971
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
Operation Breadbasket
1969
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988
Fantastic Lies
2016
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
A Matter of Respect
1980
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
The Day the Troubles Began
2008
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983
Loudmouth
2022
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
Nationtime
1972
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
Crashing the Party
2016
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
A Decade of Struggle
1980
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
Last Party 2000
2001
Dear Mister President
Ballou
2008
Bernie Blackout
2020
University, Inc.
1999
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
We Are Many
2014
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
A Man's Story
2011
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
Save the Children
1973
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
The Soul of Stax
1994
Decade
1989
Wattstax
1973
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
LA 92
2017
South to Black Power
2023
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Uptight
1968
4 Little Girls
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Daily Show
1996
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
Robins
2006
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
Shut Up and Dribble
2018
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Tanner '88
1988
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Chris Rock Show
1997
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
A Different World
1987
Baseball
1994
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Explained
2018
Dinah!
1974
Obama
2020
World in Action
1963
Tanner on Tanner
2004
Not Necessarily the News
1983
Hollywood Black
2024