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".
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.229 |
| Birthday | 1941-10-08 |
| Place of Birth | Greenville, South Carolina, USA |
| Also Known As | Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., |
2021
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
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Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
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Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
2002
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
6.4/7
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Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
BaadAsssss Cinema
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BaadAsssss Cinema
2021
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
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An inspiring portrait of the life and legacy of Jewish theologian and philosopher, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Heschel was one of the most remarkabl...
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Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
7.7/194
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and pr...
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1999
University, Inc.
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1999
The Subtext of a Yale Education
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Two years in labor relations at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, during the decade of the 1990s.
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2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
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2011
A Man's Story
6.9/8
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The Soul of Stax
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
7.4/23
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2009
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
5.6/4
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2019
Stax, le label soul légendaire
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Chicago at the Crossroad
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Uptight
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Ballou
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2007
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
8.5/2
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King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
1997
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
10/1
Documentary narrated by Paul Winfield, this documentary follows the course of Mahalia Jackson's extraordinary life - from her humble beginnings as a s...
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Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
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Operation Breadbasket
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Crashing the Party
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Crashing the Party
2009
Michael Jackson Memorial
8/18
A live telecast of the public memorial service for the king of pop, Michael Jackson.
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1983
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
6/1
The history of the television version of "Amos and Andy" and the public outcry to cancel it.
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Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
2020
Uncle Tom
7.776/29
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2018
The Road to Mass Incarceration
0/0
This video, The Road to Mass Incarceration, by Greenhouse Media summarizes criminal justice policy decisions dating back to the 1960s. Although the ef...
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The Road to Mass Incarceration
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
7.3/10
Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activi...
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2014
We Are Many
6.7/15
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2012
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
7.4/5
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2022
Loudmouth
6/2
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2022
El otro Rey de Chicago
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1997
4 Little Girls
7.2/42
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4 Little Girls
1980
A Matter of Respect
0/0
Teen pregnancy short drama, mixed with a real Planned Parenthood group session of women, and excerpts from a lecture by Reverend Jesse Jackson.
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1988
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
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South to Black Power
6/1
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Anecdotes about Fidel
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2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
6.788/80
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2016
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
8.2/8
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Save the Children
7/1
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2009
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
6.8/10
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2016
Fantastic Lies
7.2/17
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Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
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A Decade of Struggle
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Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
6/2
"This biography profiles the life and faith of the man who has preached to more people than any other person in history. "William Franklin Graham, bet...
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Route One/USA
7.3/11
Route One is the first major U.S. highway. 5000 km along the Atlantic coast, from the Canadian border to the tip of Florida. Doc, a physician who spen...
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Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
0/0
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In Remembrance of Martin
9/1
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Decade
7/1
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1972
Nationtime
0/0
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the politi...
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1996
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
10/1
Documentary feature exploring the rise of African-Americans to positions of greatness in American sports. Stories are told of boxers, tennis players,...
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Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
9/2
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I Am MLK Jr.
9.5/2
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2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
0/0
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Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
6/3
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Last Party 2000
6.1/10
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September First, Twenty-Twenty
9/1
A witness to Kenosha Wisconsin's largest protest following the Jacob Blake shooting, september first, twenty-twenty. The same weekend Donald Trump was...
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2020
Bernie Blackout
7/1
An investigative deep dive into the corporate news media’s coverage of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign that asks: who actually gets a say i...
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