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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'.
As actor
South to Black Power
Loudmouth
El otro Rey de Chicago
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Bernie Blackout
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Chicago at the Crossroad
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
I Am MLK Jr.
LA 92
Crashing the Party
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Fantastic Lies
We Are Many
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
A Man's Story
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry