Jimmy Lee Jackson

NAME OF PERSON	DESCRIPTION
Jimmy Lee Jackson	He 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.

DESCRIPTION	NAME OF  SITE	CITY	STATE
BIRTHPLACE	Jimmy Lee Jackson – farm	MARION	ALABAMA
ALMA MATER	SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CENTER	SELMA	ALABAMA
HE ATTENDED MEETINGS	ZION CHAPEL METHODIST CHURCH	MARION	ALABAMA
500 PEOPLE ATTEMPTED PEACEFUL TO WALK	PERRY COUNTY JAIL	MARION	ALABAMA
DEATHPLACE	GOOD SUMARITARIAN HOSPITAL	SELMA	ALABAMA
BURIAL PLACE	HEARD CEMETRY	MARION	ALABAMA
JIMMIE LEE JACKSON WAS SHOT BEHIND ZION METHODIST CHURCH	ZION METHODIST CHURCH	MARION	ALABAMA
JIMMY LEE JACKSON MARKER ( VOTING RIGHTS MARTY	PERRY COUNTY COURTHOUSE	MARION	ALABAMA
FUNERAL	MARION COUNTY CITY HALL	JACKSON	MISSISSPPI
INTERESTING FACT	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