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 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 ...

This time there were tears. Jimmie Lee Jackson was only 26 years old, a church deacon, shot and killed by a state trooper in the aftermath of a voting rights protest just up the road in nearby Marion.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...