Jesse Jackson

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

78

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-10-08 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Jesse Jackson

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

  • The Daily Show

    The Daily Show

  • Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

  • Real Time with Bill Maher

    Real Time with Bill Maher

  • Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

  • A Different World

    A Different World

  • Dinah!

    Dinah!

  • Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

    Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

  • Explained

    Explained

  • Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

    Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

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

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

  • Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

    Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

  • The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

    The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

  • Bernie Blackout

    Bernie Blackout

  • The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

    The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

  • The Chris Rock Show

    The Chris Rock Show

  • Baseball

    Baseball

  • LA 92

    LA 92

  • Robins

    Robins

  • Nationtime

    Nationtime

  • Loudmouth

    Loudmouth

  • BaadAsssss Cinema

    BaadAsssss Cinema

  • University, Inc.

    University, Inc.

  • Joy Behar: Say Anything!

    Joy Behar: Say Anything!

  • Uptight

    Uptight

  • Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

    Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

  • A Man's Story

    A Man's Story

  • '85: The Greatest Team in Football History

    '85: The Greatest Team in Football History

  • South to Black Power

    South to Black Power

  • Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

    Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

  • Save the Children

    Save the Children

  • Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

    Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

  • Shut Up and Dribble

    Shut Up and Dribble

  • Michael Jackson Memorial

    Michael Jackson Memorial

  • Operation Breadbasket

    Operation Breadbasket

  • King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

  • Decade

    Decade

  • Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over

    Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over

  • Obama

    Obama

  • Route One/USA

    Route One/USA

  • Fantastic Lies

    Fantastic Lies

  • Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham

    Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham

  • Tanner '88

    Tanner '88

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

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

  • Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

    Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

  • The Soul of Stax

    The Soul of Stax

  • We Are Many

    We Are Many

  • Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

    Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

  • 4 Little Girls

    4 Little Girls

  • Stax, le label soul légendaire

    Stax, le label soul légendaire

  • I Am MLK Jr.

    I Am MLK Jr.

  • Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy

    Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy

  • Killing Martin Luther King Jr.

    Killing Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

    Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

  • Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

    Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

  • Crashing the Party

    Crashing the Party

  • Punch 9 for Harold Washington

    Punch 9 for Harold Washington

  • Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

    Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

  • A Matter of Respect

    A Matter of Respect

  • September First, Twenty-Twenty

    September First, Twenty-Twenty

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

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

  • El otro Rey de Chicago

    El otro Rey de Chicago

  • Uncle Tom

    Uncle Tom

  • We Are Universal

    We Are Universal

  • MLK: The Assassination Tapes

    MLK: The Assassination Tapes

  • The Subtext of a Yale Education

    The Subtext of a Yale Education

  • Anecdotes about Fidel

    Anecdotes about Fidel

  • Chicago at the Crossroad

    Chicago at the Crossroad

  • In Remembrance of Martin

    In Remembrance of Martin

  • King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

    King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

  • The Journey of the African-American Athlete

    The Journey of the African-American Athlete

  • The Road to Mass Incarceration

    The Road to Mass Incarceration

  • Jackie Robinson: An American Journey

    Jackie Robinson: An American Journey

  • A Decade of Struggle

    A Decade of Struggle

  • Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

    Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

  • Ballou

    Ballou

  • Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

    Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

  • Last Party 2000

    Last Party 2000

  • Dear Mister President

    Dear Mister President