Jesse Jackson
Acting · Born 1941-10-08 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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".
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South to Black Power 2023
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Loudmouth 2022
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El otro Rey de Chicago 2022
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Punch 9 for Harold Washington 2021
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Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over 2021
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 2021
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September First, Twenty-Twenty 2021
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Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story 2021
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street 2021
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Killing Martin Luther King Jr. 2021
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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 2021
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Uncle Tom 2020
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Bernie Blackout 2020
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Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story 2020
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Stax, le label soul légendaire 2019
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Chicago at the Crossroad 2019
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The Road to Mass Incarceration 2018
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Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America 2018
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I Am MLK Jr. 2018
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Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media 2018
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LA 92 2017
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'85: The Greatest Team in Football History 2016
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Crashing the Party 2016
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Fantastic Lies 2016
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We Are Many 2014
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Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic 2013
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MLK: The Assassination Tapes 2012
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A Man's Story 2011
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Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound 2009
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Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel 2009
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Michael Jackson Memorial 2009
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The Nine Lives of Marion Barry 2009
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Anecdotes about Fidel 2009
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The Day the Troubles Began 2008
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Ballou 2008
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King: Man of Peace in a Time of War 2007
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Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony 2002
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BaadAsssss Cinema 2002
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Last Party 2000 2001
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The Subtext of a Yale Education 1999
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University, Inc. 1999
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4 Little Girls 1997
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Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory 1997
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The Journey of the African-American Athlete 1996
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The Soul of Stax 1994
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Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham 1993
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Decade 1989
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Route One/USA 1989
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Jackie Robinson: An American Journey 1988
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In Remembrance of Martin 1986
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Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy 1983
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Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip 1982
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A Decade of Struggle 1980
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A Matter of Respect 1980
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Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 1973
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Save the Children 1973
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Nationtime 1972
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We Are Universal 1971
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis 1970
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Dear Mister President
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Operation Breadbasket 1969
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Uptight 1968
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