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Bookmark or Share- On this day in 1965, Ala. trooper fatally shot Jimmie Lee Jackson ...A second trooper, James Bonard Fowler, shot Jackson, who was beaten again by police after staggering from the café. Jackson’s death eight days later inspired civil rights activists to march from Selma to Montgomery.
- White trooper who killed civil rights activist dies | CNNFowler shot 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson at a restaurant in Marion, Alabama, on the night of February 18, 1965. Martin Luther King Jr. eulogized Jackson as a “martyred hero” and his death...
- Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson - WikipediaOn February 18, 1965, while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, he was beaten by troopers and fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper. Jackson died eight days later in the hospital.
- Jackson, Jimmie Lee | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and ...On the night of 18 February 1965, an Alabama state trooper shot Jimmie Lee Jackson in the stomach as he tried to protect his mother from being beaten at Mack’s Café.
- Jimmie Lee Jackson: The Murder that Sparked the Selma to Montgomery ...On February 26, 1965, Alabama civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson died after he was brutally beaten and shot by Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler during a peaceful voting rights march on February 18, 1965.
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