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Known For
Acting
Birthday
1941-10-08
Place of Birth
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Jesse Jackson
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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as Self - Host
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
as Self
as Himself
as Himself (archive footage)
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
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