Jesse Jackson

84, from Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Artwork for Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)Image of Jesse Jackson

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".

Timeline

2023Aged 82

  • Poster for South to Black Power

    Self

2022Aged 81

  • Poster for El otro Rey de Chicago

    Self

  • Poster for Loudmouth

    Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)

2021Aged 80

  • Poster for Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Killing Martin Luther King Jr.

    Self

  • Poster for Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

    Self

  • Poster for September First, Twenty-Twenty

    Himself

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

    Self

  • Poster for Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over

    Self

  • Poster for Punch 9 for Harold Washington

    (Unknown)

2020Aged 79

2019Aged 78

  • Poster for Chicago at the Crossroad

    Self

  • Poster for Stax, le label soul légendaire

    Self (archive footage)

2018Aged 77

2017Aged 76

  • Poster for LA 92

    Self (archive footage)

2016Aged 75

  • Poster for Fantastic Lies

    Himself (archive footage)

  • Poster for Crashing the Party

    Self

  • Poster for '85: The Greatest Team in Football History

    Self

2014Aged 73

  • Poster for We Are Many

    Self

2013Aged 72

  • Poster for Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

    Self

2012Aged 71

  • Poster for MLK: The Assassination Tapes

    Self (archive Footage)

2011Aged 70

  • Poster for A Man's Story

    Self

2009Aged 68

  • Poster for Anecdotes about Fidel

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

    Self

  • Poster for Michael Jackson Memorial

    Self

  • Poster for Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

    Self

  • Poster for Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

    Self

2008Aged 67

2007Aged 66

  • Poster for King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

    Self

2002Aged 61

  • Poster for BaadAsssss Cinema

    Self

  • Poster for Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

    Self (archive footage)

2001Aged 60

  • Poster for Last Party 2000

    Self

1999Aged 58

  • Poster for University, Inc.

    Self (Archive Footage)

  • Poster for The Subtext of a Yale Education

    Self

  • Poster for Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

    (archive footage)

1997Aged 56

  • Poster for Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for 4 Little Girls

    Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition

1996Aged 55

  • Poster for The Journey of the African-American Athlete

    Self (archive footage)

1994Aged 53

  • Poster for The Soul of Stax

    Self

1993Aged 52

  • Poster for Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham

    Self

1992Aged 51

  • Poster for America's Political Parties: Power and Principle

    Self

1989Aged 48

  • Poster for Route One/USA

    Self

  • Poster for Decade

    Self

1988Aged 47

1986Aged 45

  • Poster for In Remembrance of Martin

    Self

1983Aged 42

1982Aged 41

  • Poster for Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

    Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

1980Aged 39

  • Poster for A Matter of Respect

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for A Decade of Struggle

    Self

1973Aged 32

  • Poster for Wattstax

    Self

  • Poster for Save the Children

    Self

  • Poster for Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

    Self/Cameo (archive footage)

1972Aged 31

  • Poster for Nationtime: Gary

    Self

1971Aged 30

1970Aged 29

  • Poster for King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    Self (archive footage)

1969Aged 28

  • Poster for Operation Breadbasket

    Self

1968Aged 27

  • Poster for Uptight

    Self (archive footage)

Year unknown

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