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On 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.
Jimmie Lee Jackson was a 26-year-old deacon and father who died from his wounds after being shot by a state trooper in 1965. He was one of the martyrs who inspired the march from Selma to Montgomery that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Learn how the death of civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson in 1965 led to the Selma Voting Rights Movement and the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Find out how his killer was finally brought to justice in 2010 and visit Power of the Vote exhibit at the Freedom Center.
Apr 3, 2014 · Jimmie Lee Jackson was a civil rights activist who was shot and killed by an Alabama state trooper in 1965. His death sparked the Selma to Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act.
Feb 27, 2015 · How a post-Civil War massacre impacted racial justice in America. Learn how the Colfax massacre and the Cruikshank decision limited the federal government's ability to prosecute racially motivated crimes.
May 20, 2021 · Jimmie Lee Jackson was a 26-year-old deacon and civil rights activist who was shot and killed by an Alabama state trooper in 1965. His death sparked the Selma to Montgomery march and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but his name is rarely mentioned today.
When her son, Jimmie Lee Jackson, sought to protect his mother, a trooper threw him against a cigarette machine, and another trooper, James Bonard Fowler, shot him twice in the abdomen. Fowler, who didn't admit to the killing until 2005, claimed he had been acting in self-defense, and was trying to keep Jackson from grabbing his gun.
