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Jimmie Lee Jackson (December 16, 1938 – February 26, 1965) was an African American civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama, and a deacon in the Baptist church. On February 18, 1965, while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, he was beaten by troopers and fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper. Jackson died eight days later in the hospital.

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  • Jimmie Lee Jackson (December 16, 1938 – February 26, 1965) was an African American civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama, and a deacon in the Baptist church. On February 18, 1965, while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, he was beaten by troopers and fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper. Jackson died eight days later in the hospital. His death helped inspire the Selma to Montgomery marches in March 1965, a major event in the civil rights movement that helped gain congressional passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This opened the door to millions of African Americans being able to vote again in Alabama and across the Southern United States, regaining participation as citizens in the political system for the first time since the turn of the 20th century. Most had been disenfranchised since then by state constitutions and discriminatory practices that made voter registration and voting more difficult. In 2005, former Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler admitted that he had shot Jackson, in what he said was self-defense soon after street lights had gone out and a melee had broken out. Former trooper Fowler was indicted in 2007 in Jackson's death. In 2010 he pleaded guilty to manslaughter. He was sentenced to six months in prison. (en)
  • Jimmie Lee Jackson (Marion, 16 dicembre 1938 – Marion, 26 febbraio 1965) è stato un attivista statunitense che collaborò con Martin Luther King nella sua lotta per i diritti della popolazione nera.Il 18 febbraio 1965, mentre partecipava a una marcia pacifica in favore del diritto di voto agli afroamericani, fu percosso e ferito da un proiettile dall'agente . Jackson era disarmato e morì otto giorni dopo in ospedale La sua morte fu parte dell'ispirazione per la marcia da Selma a Montgomery nel marzo del 1965, una tappa fondamentale per il movimento per i diritti civili degli afroamericani, che rese possibile la promulgazione del Voting Rights Act del 1965. Questo permise a milioni di afroamericani di votare nuovamente in Alabama e in tutto il resto degli Stati Uniti del Sud, riguadagnando partecipazione come cittadini nel sistema politico per la prima volta dopo la svolta del XX secolo, in cui vennero notevolmente ridotte le discriminazioni contro di essi, Nel 2007 l'ex agente Fowler fu accusato della morte di Jackson e si dichiarò colpevole di omicidio. Fu poi condannato a sei mesi di prigione. (it)
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  • Jimmie Lee Jackson (December 16, 1938 – February 26, 1965) was an African American civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama, and a deacon in the Baptist church. On February 18, 1965, while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, he was beaten by troopers and fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper. Jackson died eight days later in the hospital. (en)
  • Jimmie Lee Jackson (Marion, 16 dicembre 1938 – Marion, 26 febbraio 1965) è stato un attivista statunitense che collaborò con Martin Luther King nella sua lotta per i diritti della popolazione nera.Il 18 febbraio 1965, mentre partecipava a una marcia pacifica in favore del diritto di voto agli afroamericani, fu percosso e ferito da un proiettile dall'agente . Jackson era disarmato e morì otto giorni dopo in ospedale Nel 2007 l'ex agente Fowler fu accusato della morte di Jackson e si dichiarò colpevole di omicidio. Fu poi condannato a sei mesi di prigione. (it)
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