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Memorial where Jackson was shot, behind Zion Methodist Church in Marion, Alabama.
Apr 3, 2014 · Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot and killed by an Alabama state trooper in 1965; his death inspired a civil rights demonstration that led to the Voting Rights Act.
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.
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.
Feb 18, 2024 · When Jimmie Lee Jackson tried to protect his mother, one trooper threw him against a cigarette machine. A second trooper, James Bonard Fowler, shot Jackson, who was beaten again by police after staggering from the café.
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May 3, 2017 · Jimmie Lee Jackson. On February 18, 1965, Alabama State Trooper James Fowler, fatally shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, the 26-year-old African-American victim, following a civil rights protest in Marion, Alabama. The victim was transported to a nearby hospital where he died on February 26, 1965, of an abdominal infection secondary to a gunshot wound to ...
Feb 27, 2015 · On the night of Feb. 18, 1965, Jackson was shot by a state trooper, James Bonard Fowler, while he was coming to the aid of his mother who had been brutally beaten during a voting rights march. Jackson died eight days later at a hospital in neighboring Selma.
