Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson

Birthday: 1941-10-08

Place of birth: Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Also known as: Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.

imdb_id: nm0413666

Biography:

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".

Played in movies:

The Journey of the African-American Athlete

Score: 10.0

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

Score: 10.0

I Am MLK Jr.

Score: 9.5

September First, Twenty-Twenty

Score: 9.0

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

Score: 9.0

In Remembrance of Martin

Score: 9.0

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

Score: 8.5

'85: The Greatest Team in Football History

Score: 8.2

Nationtime

Score: 8.0

Michael Jackson Memorial

Score: 8.0

Ballou

Score: 8.0

Uncle Tom

Score: 7.8

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

Score: 7.6

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Score: 7.5

MLK: The Assassination Tapes

Score: 7.4

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

Score: 7.3

Route One/USA

Score: 7.3

Fantastic Lies

Score: 7.2

4 Little Girls

Score: 7.2

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Score: 7.1

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

Score: 7.0

Bernie Blackout

Score: 7.0

Decade

Score: 7.0

A Man's Story

Score: 6.9

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

Score: 6.8

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

Score: 6.8

We Are Many

Score: 6.7

Uptight

Score: 6.6

Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over

Score: 6.5

Save the Children

Score: 6.4

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

Score: 6.4

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

Score: 6.3

Last Party 2000

Score: 6.1

BaadAsssss Cinema

Score: 6.1

Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham

Score: 6.0

Loudmouth

Score: 6.0

Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy

Score: 6.0

The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

Score: 5.6

Chicago at the Crossroad

Score: 4.0

South to Black Power

Score: 3.5

Dear Mister President

Score: 0.0

We Are Universal

Score: 0.0

Killing Martin Luther King Jr.

Score: 0.0

Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story

Score: 0.0

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

Score: 0.0

A Decade of Struggle

Score: 0.0

Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

Score: 0.0

Anecdotes about Fidel

Score: 0.0

Jackie Robinson: An American Journey

Score: 0.0

A Matter of Respect

Score: 0.0

El otro Rey de Chicago

Score: 0.0

The Road to Mass Incarceration

Score: 0.0

Crashing the Party

Score: 0.0

Operation Breadbasket

Score: 0.0

Stax, le label soul légendaire

Score: 0.0

The Soul of Stax

Score: 0.0

The Subtext of a Yale Education

Score: 0.0

University, Inc.

Score: 0.0

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

Score: 0.0

Punch 9 for Harold Washington

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Robins

Score: 7.8

Explained

Score: 7.5

Baseball

Score: 7.3

A Different World

Score: 7.0

Saturday Night Live

Score: 7.0

Tanner '88

Score: 6.7

Dinah!

Score: 6.7

The Daily Show

Score: 6.4

Real Time with Bill Maher

Score: 6.0

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Score: 6.0

Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

Score: 5.8

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Score: 5.5

The Chris Rock Show

Score: 4.4

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

Score: 3.0

Shut Up and Dribble

Score: 1.0

Joy Behar: Say Anything!

Score: 0.0