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 attacking a state trooper after he was picked up for speeding.
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Jimmie was praying at the Mount Zion Methodist Church.
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Jimmie was marching beside Martin Luther King.
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Jimmie was protecting his mother and grandfather from being beaten.
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Detailed explanation-1: -On the night of 18 February 1965, an Alabama state trooper shot Jimmie Lee Jackson in the stomach as he tried to protect his mother from being beaten at Mack’s Café.
Detailed explanation-2: -Selma, Alabama, U.S. 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.
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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why was Jackson singled out in the cafe? There was no intentionality behind it. He was trying to help his mother, who had been struck by a trooper, and the troopers singled him out.