

Jesse Jackson
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October 8, 1941
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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".
The Filmography


Bernie Blackout

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

A Man's Story

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

Michael Jackson Memorial

The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

BaadAsssss Cinema

Last Party 2000

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
