Ficklin Media Note: I do not know why Jimmie Lee Jackon is not known in the common historical vernacular as much as the word Selma, or the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Locations and structures can be wiped out by earthquakes, hurricanes and bulldozers.
People can be assassinated and buried as well. I would rather remember real versus the man made or GPS identification. Who knows how many bodies are buried of folks who lived in that area before the English-French-and Spanish invasion of North America took place.
Even calling some one murdered rather than assassinated is a historical attempt to bury the social-political and economic truth. The White ISIS of that day reigned- maybe Jimmie should have been born in Ferguson.
On March 7, 1965. After the police murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson,members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
decided to march from Selma to Montgomery to confront Gov. Wallace
about the lack of justice served for the officer who committed the
crime, and to protest the violation of their constitutional right to
vote. The marchers were severely injured by state troopers in what became known as Bloody Sunday, the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches. Read, "Ten Things You Should Know About Selma Before You See the Film," here: http://bit.ly/1xI3Oq3 Teaching for Change has compiled lessons and recommended resources on the voting rights struggle in Selma, here: http://bit.ly/1zGQTbv Photo of Jackson, AP.
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