Jesse Jackson

Acting

Born: 1941-10-08

Died: 2026-02-17

From: Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Gender: Male

Popularity: 0.8

Also Known As

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.

Biography

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'.

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Awards & Nominations6 won · 0 nominated

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Commander of the Legion of Honour

2021

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James Joyce Awards

2004

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Presidential Medal of Freedom

2000

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Honorary doctorate from the University of Cairo

1989

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Spingarn Medal

1989

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Eugene V. Debs Award

1978

Jesse Jackson

Also Known As

Biography

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Awards & Nominations6 won · 0 nominated

Acting76 titles

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

The Journey of the African-American Athlete

Tanner on Tanner

Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

September First, Twenty-Twenty

I Am MLK Jr.

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

Decade

'85: The Greatest Team in Football History

University, Inc.

Michael Jackson Memorial

In Remembrance of Martin

Nationtime

Robins

LA 92

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Baseball

Explained

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

MLK: The Assassination Tapes

Route One/USA

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

4 Little Girls

Fantastic Lies

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham

Bernie Blackout

A Different World

Dinah!

World in Action

A Man's Story

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

Wattstax

Tanner '88

Saturday Night Live

Uptight

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

Last Party 2000

Not Necessarily the News

We Are Many

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

Save the Children

Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over

The Daily Show

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

BaadAsssss Cinema

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

Loudmouth

Real Time with Bill Maher

The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

Hollywood Black

The Chris Rock Show

Chicago at the Crossroad

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

South to Black Power

Shut Up and Dribble

Punch 9 for Harold Washington

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

The Subtext of a Yale Education

The Soul of Stax

Stax, le label soul légendaire

Operation Breadbasket

Crashing the Party

The Road to Mass Incarceration

El otro Rey de Chicago

A Matter of Respect

Anecdotes about Fidel

Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

A Decade of Struggle

Killing Martin Luther King Jr.

America's Political Parties: Power and Principle