Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old African American man, was a deacon in his Baptist church and a civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama. On the night of February 18, 1965, he participated in a peaceful protest march in his city. The march was organized to protest the arrest of a fellow civil rights worker. The demonstration was met with a violent response from Alabama State Troopers and local police, who began beating the unarmed marchers. In the ensuing chaos, Jackson, along with his mother a
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