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Jesse Jackson
Born 1941-10-08Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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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South to Black PowerSelfLoudmouthSelf - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)El otro Rey de ChicagoSelfPunch 9 for Harold WashingtonRoleDionne Warwick: Don't Make Me OverSelfSummer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)SelfSeptember First, Twenty-TwentyHimselfSpiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel StorySelfStreet Gang: How We Got to Sesame StreetSelf (archive footage)Killing Martin Luther King Jr.SelfCrack: Cocaine, Corruption & ConspiracySelf (archive footage)Bernie BlackoutSelf (archive footage)Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway StorySelfStax, le label soul légendaireSelf (archive footage)Chicago at the CrossroadSelfThe Road to Mass IncarcerationSelfRise Up: The Movement that Changed AmericaSelfI Am MLK Jr.SelfHope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the MediaSelfLA 92Self (archive footage)'85: The Greatest Team in Football HistorySelfCrashing the PartySelfFantastic LiesHimself (archive footage)We Are ManySelf