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".
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South to Black Power
2023
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Loudmouth
2022
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El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
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Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
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Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
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September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
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Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
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Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
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Uncle Tom
2020
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Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020
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Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
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Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
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Shut Up and Dribble
2018
as Self - Civil Rights Leader
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
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Explained
2018
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Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
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I Am MLK Jr.
2018
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Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
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'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
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Crashing the Party
2016
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Fantastic Lies
2016
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We Are Many
2014
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Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
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MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
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A Man's Story
2011
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Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
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Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
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Michael Jackson Memorial
2009
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The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
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Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
Ballou
2008
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King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
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The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer
2005
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
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BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
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Last Party 2000
2001
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The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
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University, Inc.
1999
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4 Little Girls
1997
as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
The Chris Rock Show
1997
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996
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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
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Baseball
1994
as Various (voice)
The Soul of Stax
1994
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993
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Decade
1989
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Route One/USA
1989
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Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988
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Tanner '88
1988
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A Different World
1987
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In Remembrance of Martin
1986
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Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983
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Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
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A Decade of Struggle
1980
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A Matter of Respect
1980
Dinah!
1974
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Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973
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Save the Children
1973
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Nationtime
1972
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
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Operation Breadbasket
1969
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Uptight
1968
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