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'.
Filmography
The Daily Show
Saturday Night Live
Real Time with Bill Maher
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Dinah!
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
A Different World
Explained
Baseball
Robins
The Chris Rock Show
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
World in Action
Shut Up and Dribble
Tanner '88
Uptight
Obama
A Man's Story
Nationtime
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
University, Inc.
Last Party 2000
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Decade
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Uncle Tom
Punch 9 for Harold Washington