Jesse Jackson

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".

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Punch 9 for Harold Washington

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

(Self - Audience Member (uncredited))

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

(Self (archive footage))

BaadAsssss Cinema

(Self)

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

(Self)

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

(Self (archive footage))

University, Inc.

(Self (Archive Footage))

The Subtext of a Yale Education

(Self)

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

(Self)

A Man's Story

(Self)

The Soul of Stax

(Self)

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

(Self (archive footage))

The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

(Self)

Stax, le label soul légendaire

(Self (archive footage))

Chicago at the Crossroad

(Self)

Uptight

(Self (archive footage))

Ballou

(Himself)

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

(Self)

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

(Self)

Operation Breadbasket

(Self)

Crashing the Party

(Self)

Michael Jackson Memorial

(Self)

Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy

(Self)

Uncle Tom

(Self (archive footage))

The Road to Mass Incarceration

(Self)

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

(Self (archive footage))

We Are Many

(Self)

MLK: The Assassination Tapes

(Self (archive Footage))

Loudmouth

(Self)

El otro Rey de Chicago

(Self)

4 Little Girls

(Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition)

A Matter of Respect

Jackie Robinson: An American Journey

(On Screen Narrator)

South to Black Power

(Self)

Anecdotes about Fidel

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

(Self (archive footage))

'85: The Greatest Team in Football History

(Self)

Save the Children

(Self)

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

(Self)

Fantastic Lies

(Himself (archive footage))

Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

(Self)

A Decade of Struggle

(Self)

Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham

(Himself)

Route One/USA

(Self)

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

(Self)

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

(Self)

In Remembrance of Martin

(Self)

Decade

(Self)

Nationtime

(Self)

The Journey of the African-American Athlete

(Self (archive footage))

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

(Self/Cameo (archive footage))

I Am MLK Jr.

(Self)

Killing Martin Luther King Jr.

(Self)

Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over

(Self)

Last Party 2000

(Self)

September First, Twenty-Twenty

(Himself)

Bernie Blackout

(Self (archive footage))

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Daily Show

(Self)

The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer

Robins

(Self - Guest)

Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

(Self)

Shut Up and Dribble

(Self - Civil Rights Leader)

Joy Behar: Say Anything!

Tanner '88

(Himself (uncredited))

Saturday Night Live

(Self - Host)

The Chris Rock Show

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

(Cocky Locky (voice))

A Different World

(Himself)

Baseball

(Various (voice))

Real Time with Bill Maher

(Self)

Explained

(Self (archive footage))

Dinah!

(Self)