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Jesse Jackson

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'.

  • 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
  • Bernie Blackout
  • Stax, le label soul légendaire
  • Chicago at the Crossroad
  • The Road to Mass Incarceration
  • Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
  • 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
  • Michael Jackson Memorial
  • Anecdotes about Fidel
  • Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
  • King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
  • Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
  • BaadAsssss Cinema
  • Last Party 2000
  • University, Inc.
  • The Subtext of a Yale Education
  • Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
  • 4 Little Girls
  • The Journey of the African-American Athlete
  • The Soul of Stax
  • Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
  • America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
  • Route One/USA
  • Decade
  • In Remembrance of Martin
  • Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
  • A Matter of Respect
  • A Decade of Struggle
  • Save the Children
  • Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
  • Wattstax
  • Nationtime: Gary
  • King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
  • Operation Breadbasket
  • Uptight

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