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Posted: 3:38 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, 2013

Black History Fact: Jimmie Lee Jackson

Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, died of injuries inflicted by police officers in Marion, AL, on this date in 1965. Jackson was shot eight days earlier while defending his mother as their group was attacked while leaving a voting-rights meeting.

 
 

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