Jesse Jackson
Born: 1941-10-08
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".
Known For
A Man's Story
2011★ 6.9
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022★ 0.0
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993★ 6.0
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019★ 0.0
The Soul of Stax
1994★ 0.0
Uptight
1968★ 6.6
University, Inc.
1999★ 0.0
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002★ 5.9
Loudmouth
2022★ 6.0
Decade
1989★ 7.0
Bernie Blackout
2020★ 7.0
Nationtime
1972★ 8.0
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021★ 0.0
Fantastic Lies
2016★ 7.2
Operation Breadbasket
1969★ 0.0
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021★ 7.6
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009★ 0.0
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021★ 6.8
A Matter of Respect
1980★ 0.0
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021★ 7.5
LA 92
2017★ 7.7
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021★ 9.0
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013★ 7.0
I Am MLK Jr.
2018★ 9.5
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016★ 8.2
Uncle Tom
2020★ 7.6
4 Little Girls
1997★ 7.2
We Are Many
2014★ 6.7
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009★ 8.0
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009★ 6.0
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021★ 6.5
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970★ 7.1
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982★ 7.3
Route One/USA
1989★ 7.3
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021★ 0.0
Last Party 2000
2001★ 6.1
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019★ 4.0
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999★ 0.0
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012★ 7.4
Save the Children
1973★ 6.4
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009★ 6.8
Crashing the Party
2016★ 0.0
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018★ 0.0
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002★ 6.4
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007★ 8.5
South to Black Power
2023★ 3.5
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973★ 9.0
In Remembrance of Martin
1986★ 9.0
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018★ 0.0
A Decade of Struggle
1980★ 0.0
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996★ 10.0
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009★ 5.6
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021★ 0.0
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997★ 10.0