Those marks, which prosecutors decades ago had told jurors came from the suspect, were critical evidence in convicting Jimmie Chris Duncan ... girl’s body to a morgue 120 miles to the east in Jackson, ...
As a twentysomething freelance journalist at the Birmingham News, James "Spider" Martin was tasked with capturing these moments with his camera, after state troopers shot and killed civil rights ...
after state troopers shot and killed civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion, Ala. His death led to protests that went on for weeks, and culminated on March 7, 1965. That day became ...
They were protesting voter suppression and the shooting death of activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. Sixty years later -- the celebration of what they were fighting for continues today. Long after Bloody ...
They were marching for the right to vote and in protest of the tragic death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, who had died just days earlier from injuries inflicted by an Alabama state trooper as he tried to ...
Led by Hosea Williams and John Lewis, advocates were fed up with lack of justice for Jimmie Lee Jackson. Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler shot and killed the 26-year-old Baptist deacon ...
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 ...
Jimmie Lee Williams Sr., 63, of Busti, New York (2997 Burton Road) passed away unexpectedly on February 27 at 8:15pm at UPMC Chautauqua. He was born April 26, 1961 to Guy Williams and Florence ...
The marchers were protesting white officials’ refusal to allow Black Alabamians to register to vote, as well as the killing days earlier of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a minister and voting rights ...