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Jesse Jackson

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".

Et billede af Jesse Jackson

Actor

1968

[ ] Uptight (Self (archive footage))

1969

[ ] Operation Breadbasket (Self)

1970

[ ] King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (Self (archive footage))

1971

[ ] We Are Universal (????)

1972

[ ] Nationtime (Self)

1973

[ ] Save the Children (Self)
[ ] Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 (Self/Cameo (archive footage))

1980

[ ] A Matter of Respect (????)
[ ] A Decade of Struggle (Self)

1982

[ ] Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (Self - Audience Member (uncredited))

1983

[ ] Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy (Self)

1986

[ ] In Remembrance of Martin (Self)

1988

[ ] Jackie Robinson: An American Journey (On Screen Narrator)

1989

[ ] Route One/USA (Self)
[ ] Decade (Self)

1993

[ ] Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham (Self)

1994

[ ] The Soul of Stax (Self)

1996

[ ] The Journey of the African-American Athlete (Self (archive footage))

1997

[ ] Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory (????)
[ ] 4 Little Girls (Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition)

1999

[ ] University, Inc. (Self (Archive Footage))
[ ] The Subtext of a Yale Education (Self)

2001

[ ] Last Party 2000 (Self)

2002

[ ] Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (Self (archive footage))
[ ] BaadAsssss Cinema (Self)

2007

[ ] King: Man of Peace in a Time of War (Self)

2008

[ ] Ballou (Himself)
[ ] The Day the Troubles Began (Self)

2009

[ ] Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (Self)
[ ] The Nine Lives of Marion Barry (Self)
[ ] Michael Jackson Memorial (Self)
[ ] Anecdotes about Fidel (????)
[ ] Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound (Self)

2011

[ ] A Man's Story (Self)

2012

[ ] MLK: The Assassination Tapes (Self (archive Footage))

2013

[ ] Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (Self)

2014

[ ] We Are Many (Self)

2016

[ ] Crashing the Party (Self)
[ ] '85: The Greatest Team in Football History (Self)
[ ] Fantastic Lies (Himself (archive footage))

2017

[ ] LA 92 (Self (archive footage))

2018

[ ] The Road to Mass Incarceration (Self)
[ ] Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America (Self)
[ ] Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media (Self)
[ ] I Am MLK Jr. (Self)

2019

[ ] Stax, le label soul légendaire (Self (archive footage))
[ ] Chicago at the Crossroad (Self)

2020

[ ] Uncle Tom (Self (archive footage))
[ ] Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story (Self)
[ ] Bernie Blackout (Self (archive footage))

2021

[ ] Punch 9 for Harold Washington (????)
[ ] Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story (Self)
[ ] Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Self)
[ ] Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (Self (archive footage))
[ ] Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (Self (archive footage))
[ ] Killing Martin Luther King Jr. (Self)
[ ] Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over (Self)
[ ] September First, Twenty-Twenty (Himself)

2022

[ ] Loudmouth (Self)
[ ] El otro Rey de Chicago (Self)

2023

[ ] South to Black Power (Self)

????

[ ] Dear Mister President (Self)