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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bloody Sunday, the day when hundreds of people peacefully marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, yet were met with violence, occurred 60 years ago (March 7, 1965) today. In the decades since ...

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 ...

The march turned ugly and Lewis was almost beaten to death after enduring brutal ... To protect his mother, her 26-year-old son, Jimmie Lee Jackson, intervened during the attack only to be fatally ...