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8 de may. de 2024 · On February 18, 1965, in Marion, the county seat of Perry county, near Selma, a state trooper shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, a young African American man, during a nighttime demonstration.
10 de may. de 2024 · An Alabama grand jury indicted former state trooper James Bonard Fowler for the Feb. 18, 1965, killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was trying to protect his mother from being beaten at Mack’s Café. At Jackson’s funeral, Martin Luther King Jr. called him “a martyred hero of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity.”.
Hace 6 días · El motivo de la protesta era el asesinato de Jimmie Lee Jackson, un joven activista negro, a manos de la policía. Martin Luther King Jr. en la marcha de Selma a Montgomery, Wikimedia Commons. El día de la protesta sería conocido como el Domingo Sangriento y permanecería como una herida dolorosa en la historia de Occidente.
7 de may. de 2024 · Vote in the primary on June 18, 2024 (early voting started on May 3), And during the General Election of November 2024, vote to honor the memory of civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. Jackson’s grandparents, his parents, and Jackson never voted because, despite all their efforts, they were never allowed to register to vote.
Hace 3 días · A white police officer murdered unarmed George Floyd in Minneapolis four years ago tomorrow, May 25, 2020. The murder of Mr. Floyd broadened the Movement for Black Lives to a global reckoning, another cycle of history repeating itself over more than 400 years. In February 1965, 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson was part of a protest….
Hace 5 días · The civil rights movement of the 1960s was marked by numerous cases of violent and sometimes deadly interventions by Alabama troopers such as James Bonard Fowler who shot and killed a young voting rights activist named Jimmie Lee Jackson, sparking the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965.
Hace 4 días · On February 18 in Marion, Alabama, state troopers violently broke up a nighttime voting-rights march during which officer James Bonard Fowler shot and killed young African-American protester Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was unarmed and protecting his mother.
