MadameNoire12d
Bloody Sunday’s Hidden Figures: 7 Black Women History Almost Forgot
A little over a month before the event took place, during a peaceful protest, police assaulted Jackson on February 18, 1965. To protect his mother, her 26-year-old son, Jimmie Lee Jackson ...
Thomasville Times-Enterprise19d
ZACHARY: Daring to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge
The young man’s grandfather had been badly beaten by police and Jackson and his mother were trying to care for the elderly man, when they were once again confronted. When Jimmie Lee saw his ...
Rolling Out11d
Commemorating 60 years of Bloody Sunday
Their mission was to demand voting rights and hold Alabama Governor George Wallace accountable for the police killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson ... trying to protect his mother during a civil rights ...
KUOW10d
60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
The late Georgia Congressman John Lewis was one of the leaders of what was supposed to be a march from Selma to Montgomery, motivated by the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a Black man shot by a ...
WUNC12d
A look at the past — and the future — as Selma marks 60 years since Bloody Sunday
He was one of the leaders of what was supposed to be a march from Selma to Montgomery, motivated by the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson ... ELLIOTT: Her mother, for instance, became the first ...
The Washington Informer8d
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Remembering Selma
They were seeking the right to vote and protesting the tragic death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old Black church deacon and military veteran who had died Feb. 26 from injuries he received eight ...
ThyBlackMan on MSN2dOpinion
Sixty Years After Selma: The Unfinished Fight for Voting Rights and Equality.
Voting rights remain under attack, and voting rights protections, including those created in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, have ...
WBHM11d
60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
The late Georgia Congressman John Lewis was one of the leaders of what was supposed to be a march from Selma to Montgomery, motivated by the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson ... represents the city in ...
WKU Public Radio12d
A look at the past — and the future — as Selma marks 60 years since Bloody Sunday
He was one of the leaders of what was supposed to be a march from Selma to Montgomery, motivated by the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a Black man shot by ... ELLIOTT: Her mother, for instance, became ...
Southern Poverty Law Center13d
60 years after Bloody Sunday, foot soldiers address current threats to democracy
Her mother had experienced complications during the birth of ... They had gathered to march in honor of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a Black man who was shot and killed by an Alabama state trooper as he ...