Law enforcement officers and African Americans outside Zion United Methodist Church in Marion, Alabama, the day after the civil rights demonstration during which Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot.
The officers are blocking another attempted march to the courthouse across the street from the church building. 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...
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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/99023 |