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Like George Floyd, Jimmie Lee Jackson's death sparked a movement


10:41 pm UTC May. 20, 2021
Illustration by Mara Corbett; Gannett archives
He lay on the pavement with a bullet wound in his stomach, engulfed in chaos and darkness.
It was 1965. A year soon scarred by social and political upheaval: The assassination of Malcolm X. Bloody Sunday. The Vietnam War. The Watts Riots. 
Jimmie Lee Jackson would see none of it.
The 26-year-old showed up the night of Feb. 18 in Marion, Alabama, where hundreds of people had gathered to march in protest of the arrest of a local civil rights activist. When police and state troopers intervened to break up the march, the scene outside Zion United Methodist Church turned violent. ....

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Like George Floyd, Jimmie Lee Jackson's death sparked a movement


12:45 pm UTC May. 20, 2021
Illustration by Mara Corbett; Gannett archives
He laY on the pavement with a bullet wound in his stomach, engulfed in chaos and darkness.
It was 1965. A year soon scarred by social and political upheaval: The assassination of Malcolm X. Bloody Sunday. The Vietnam War. The Watts Riots. 
Jimmie Lee Jackson would see none of it.
The 26-year-old showed up the night of Feb. 18 in Marion, Alabama, where hundreds of people had gathered to march in protest of the arrest of a local civil rights activist. When police and state troopers intervened to break up the march, the scene outside Zion United Methodist Church turned violent. ....

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'Bloody Sunday' civil rights activist is focus of Oklahoma Christian University event

A civil rights activist who marched on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday" will be the featured guest for Oklahoma Christian University's 2021 "History Speaks" event.
The free event will be virtual and available for viewing at 6 p.m. Sunday at oc.edu/live.
"History Speaks" is Oklahoma Christian's annual event highlighting civil rights activists. In an interview with OC's History Speaks founder Gary Jones, the 2021 featured speaker, JoAnne Bland, 68, will discuss her life as a leader fighting for equality. Among other things, Bland served as co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Alabama, and she speaks and leads tours with Journeys for the Soul.
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