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'.
Known For
77 titles
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Operation Breadbasket
I Am MLK Jr.
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Fantastic Lies
The Road to Mass Incarceration
University, Inc.
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
South to Black Power
Loudmouth
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
A Decade of Struggle
Route One/USA
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
The Soul of Stax
Bernie Blackout
Chicago at the Crossroad
Anecdotes about Fidel
Crashing the Party
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Stax, le label soul légendaire
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