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Death of civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson

Jimmie Lee Jackson died on February 26 from wounds sustained after being shot by an Alabama state trooper during a voting-rights protest in Marion on February 18.

Death of civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson

Jackson’s death galvanized civil-rights organizers and helped trigger the planned Selma-to-Montgomery marches that would accelerate national momentum for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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