Civil Rights Slideshow
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Jimmie Lee Jackson's Life Story By: Jezzie Goldhammer
Jimmie Lee Jackson was an innocent black man who did not deserve to die along with several other black people. He was born in Marion, Alabama on December 16,1938. Jackson passed away after participating in a peaceful protest in Alabama on February 18, 1965. Jimmie's death was by a gunshot wound to the stomach.
The man that killed Jackson was a white man named James Bonard Fowler. Fowler claimed that he had been acting out of self defense, trying to keep Jackson from grabbing his gun. Many witnesses standing bye recounted Jimmie trying to protect his mother and his frail, eighty-two year old grandfather. After being injured, Jackson was first taken to the hospital in Selma.
After being rushed to the ER and shot in the stomach, Jimmie Lee Jackson was left lingering in the hospital before dying of an infection found in his open wound on February 26,1965. Jackson died when he was only twenty six years old. He was hoping to find a better future for him and his family. Jackson was hoping to move up north where not so many people hated blacks.
Jackson's death later set off a protest on the man who shot him in the stomach. This man is named James Bonard Fowler, Fowler had faced no punishment or disciplinary actions for killing a black man, he was also allowed to continue his job as a police officer.Jimmie's death also inspired civil rights leaders to hold the Selma to Montgomery march to March 7,1965. The response to this was violent and awaiting the demonstrators also.
When they arrived at Selma's Edmund Petlus Bridge, Selma police used tear gas and batons to stop them. The protest that this became became known as " Bloody Sunday ". Images of Bloody Sunday were shared across the country. Making the public more aware and supportive of the civil rights struggle. Approximately two weeks after Bloody Sunday, another march set out from Selma. 25,000 people had set out to go on this march. Therefore sparking a flame of hope for every supporter and victim of the civil rights act.
"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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