Jimmie Lee Jackson was murdered in February 1965 by state trooper James Fowler. The murder was the impetus for the Selma-Montgomery March. Jackson's gravestone is pockmarked with bullet holes.

Despite having been to Selma and having stood at the foot of ... This time there were tears. Jimmie Lee Jackson was only 26 years old, a church deacon, shot and killed by a state trooper in ...