PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Question
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Jimmie was taken from jail and lynched.
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Jimmie was killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers.
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Jimmie was murdered after he whistled at a white woman.
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Jimmie was shot and beaten by Alabama state troopers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. Marion, Alabama, U.S.
Detailed explanation-2: -The protesters scattered, and Jackson sought refuge in a cafe, where he was shot in the stomach by Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler. Jackson died in a hospital eight days later, on the morning of February 26, 1965, of an infection caused by the gunshot wound.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jimmie Lee Jackson, was a Vietnam veteran, Baptist deacon, activist and martyr of the Civil Rights Movement. Jackson, active in the fight for equal rights, had tried multiple times to register to vote in Alabama and was denied each time.