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 ...

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 ...

HE IS CHARGED WITH CAPITAL MURDER IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEATH OF UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI STUDENT, JIMMIE "JAY" LEE. LEE'S BODY WAS FOUND EARLIER THIS YEAR AFTER HE WENT MISSING IN JULY OF An ...

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 ...

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 ...

The march to Montgomery was sparked by the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old activist shot by an Alabama state trooper after a peaceful protest. Jackson’s murder, and the violence that ...

Led by Hosea Williams and John Lewis, advocates were fed up with lack of justice for Jimmie Lee Jackson ... In addition to protesting Jackson’s death, demonstrators protested the violation ...

A Mississippi judge dismissed a tampering with evidence charge against Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr. in the death of Jimmie "Jay" Lee. The judge ... Herrington's Jackson-based attorney Aafram ...

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 ...