African Americans walking past the courthouse in Marion, Alabama, the day after the civil rights demonstration during which Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot.
They had attempted to march to the courthouse across the street from the Zion United Methodist Church, but law enforcement officers blocked them. Jackson's subsequent death on February 26 led to "Bloody Sunday," an attempted voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery during which pe...
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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/98939 |