Courthouse in Marion, Alabama, the day after the civil rights demonstration during which Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot.
Jackson's subsequent death on February 26 led to "Bloody Sunday," an attempted voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery during which peaceful demonstrators were attacked by law enforcement officers.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/98878 |