She was there on the bridge that day. Sheyann Webb-Christburg was 9 years old on March 7, 1965. She was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “smallest freedom fighter.” She lived next to Selma’s Brown Chapel ...
Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... days earlier of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a minister and voting ...
SELMA, Ala. — Charles Mauldin was near ... as well as the killing days earlier of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a minister and voting rights organizer who was shot by a state trooper in nearby Marion.
Selma, Alabama, has a population less than ... 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 ...
and children from Selma, Alabama, toward the state capital in Montgomery. They were marching for the right to vote and in protest of the tragic death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, who had died just days ...
SELMA, Ala. (AP ... as well as the killing days earlier of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a minister and voting rights organizer who was shot by a state trooper in nearby Marion. At the apex of the ...
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 ...
SELMA, Ala. (WALA ... 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 ...
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 ...