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Jesse Jackson
Acting
Born: October 8, 1941
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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".
Known For
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self (archive footage)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad
as Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
Uptight
as Self (archive footage)
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
as Self
4 Little Girls
as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self
