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- Jackson was honored at his memorial service, eulogized as a martyr to a moral cause. He was buried in Heard Cemetery, an old slave burial ground, next to his father. His headstone was paid for by the Perry County Civic League. In the decades since, his headstone has been vandalized, bearing the marks of at least one shotgun blast.
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Jimmie Lee Jackson. Jimmie Lee Jackson was a deacon of the St. James Baptist Church in Marion, Alabama, ordained in the summer of 1964. He was beaten and shot by state troopers as he tried to protect his grandfather and mother from a trooper attack on civil rights marchers. His death lead to the Selma-Montgomery march and the eventual...
- Marion, Perry County, Alabama, USA
- December 16, 1938
Grave of Jimmie Lee Jackson Memorial where Jackson was shot, behind Zion Methodist Church in Marion, Alabama On the night of February 18, 1965, about 500 people who were organized by the SCLC activist C. T. Vivian left Zion United Methodist Church in Marion and attempted a peaceful walk to the Perry County jail, about a half a block away, where ...
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- December 16, 1938, Marion, Alabama, U.S.
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- February 26, 1965 (aged 26), Selma, Alabama, U.S.
Apr 3, 2014 · Best Known For: Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot and killed by an Alabama state trooper in 1965; his death inspired a civil rights demonstration that led to the Voting Rights Act. Industries Civil...
Quick Facts. Significance: Martyr of the Civil Rights Movement. Place of Birth: Marion, Alabama. Date of Birth: December 16, 1938. Place of Death: Selma, Alabama. Date of Death: February 26, 1965. Place of Burial: Perry County, Alabama. Cemetery Name: Heard Cemetery.
Jackson died from his wounds eight days later. Speaking at his funeral, Martin Luther King called Jackson “a martyred hero of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity” (King, 3 March 1965). Jimmie Lee Jackson was born in Marion, Alabama, on 16 December 1938.
Jackson died in a hospital eight days later, on the morning of February 26, 1965, of an infection caused by the gunshot wound.
Feb 27, 2015 · On the night of Feb. 18, 1965, Jackson was shot by a state trooper, James Bonard Fowler, while he was coming to the aid of his mother who had been brutally beaten during a voting rights march. Jackson died eight days later at a hospital in neighboring Selma.
