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CIVIL RIGHTS Jimmie Lee Jackson was a $6-a-day Negro woodcutter who lived with his mother, his sister and his grandfather on a patch of red-clay soil outside Marion, Ala. One night last month ...
Starting Monday, Dec. 2, Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr. will stand trial for the murder of Ole Miss student Jimmie "Jay" Lee. Everything we know.
A memorial for Jimmie Lee Jackson stands at the former site of Mack's Cafe, where he was beaten and shot by Alabama State Troopers on Feb. 18, 1965, in Marion, Alabama.
James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by state troopers. Accessibility links.