#JimmieLeeJackson #VotingRightsAct #BlackAmericanHistory2024 Serving six months is utter bullshit!

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#JimmieLeeJackson died on #ThisDayInHistory in 1965 due to injuries sustained a week prior. State troopers in Marion, AL — more #WhiteSupremacist cops — beat & shot the #CivilRights activist as a warning. #MLK used his death to drive the Selma to Montgomery march the next month.

On Feb. 26, 1965, Jimmie Lee Jackson died after being shot by Alabama state troopers during a voting rights protest. His death sparked the Selma to Montgomery marches, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. #BlackHistoryMonth #JimmieLeeJackson #OTD

February 26 Peace Love Art Activism | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley February 26 Peace Love Art Activism 2020: Erin Shigaki “Never Again Is Now,” included a mural of two children photographed at a California incarceration camp.

#OTD #February26 #Peace #Love #Art #Activism #NYC #NJ railway tunnels open 1908, #CassiusClay #NationofIslam 1964, #BLM #JimmieLeeJackson died 1965, #UK #Abomb 1952, #NPR incorporated 1970, slag heap kills 118 #WV 1972, #WorldTradeCenter attack 1993, woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/02/26/f...

Jimmie Lee Jackson Murdered | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Jimmie Lee Jackson murdered Jackson was born in Marion, Alabama. He fought in the Vietnam war and eventually returned to Marion where he worked as a laborer.

Remembering #JimmieLeeJackson. Shot on February 18, 1965 trying to protect his mother and grandfather. #BLM His death was the seed for #MartinLutherKingJr 's #MarchonSelma woodstockwhisperer.info/2016/02/18/j...