Jesse Jackson
Born:10/8/1941
Place of Birth: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".
Filmography
South to Black Power
20236.0
Loudmouth
20226.0
El otro Rey de Chicago
20220.0
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
20210.0
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
20216.5
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
20217.6
September First, Twenty-Twenty
20219.0
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
20210.0
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
20217.4
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
20210.0
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
20216.8
Uncle Tom
20207.8
Bernie Blackout
20207.0
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
20200.0
Stax, le label soul légendaire
20190.0
Chicago at the Crossroad
20194.0
The Road to Mass Incarceration
20180.0
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
20180.0
I Am MLK Jr.
20189.5
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
20180.0
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
20168.2
Crashing the Party
20160.0
Fantastic Lies
20167.2
We Are Many
20146.7
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
20137.1
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
20127.4
A Man's Story
20116.9
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
20096.8
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
20096.3
Michael Jackson Memorial
20098.0
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
20095.6
Anecdotes about Fidel
20090.0
Ballou
20088.0
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
20078.5
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
20026.4
BaadAsssss Cinema
20026.1
Last Party 2000
20016.1
The Subtext of a Yale Education
19990.0
University, Inc.
19990.0
4 Little Girls
19977.2
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
199710.0
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
199610.0
The Soul of Stax
19940.0
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
19936.0
Decade
19897.0
Route One/USA
19897.3
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
19880.0
In Remembrance of Martin
19869.0
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
19836.0
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
19827.3
A Decade of Struggle
19800.0
A Matter of Respect
19800.0
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
19739.0
Save the Children
19736.0
Nationtime
19720.0
We Are Universal
19710.0
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
19707.3
Operation Breadbasket
19690.0
Uptight
19686.5
Dear Mister President
NaN0.0