#jimmie lee jackson

LAST WEEK OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Day 5 of 7 Black activists to celebrate

JIMMIE LEE JACKSON:

Born December 16, 1938, became part of the Civil Rights Movement as a young man.

Jimmie fought in the Vietnam War and when he returned home he became a church deacon (the youngest at his church) and had a daughter .

After being inspired by the Civil Rights Movement Jackson tried to vote for the first time in his life.

He made many attempts to register as a voter, but never made it past the hurdles set to keep African Americans away to not vote.

Feburary 16, 1965, Jackson took part in a peaceful night march. It was a protest for the arrest of James Orange.

That night it was dark and the streetlights were off during the peaceful protest. Police and state troopers attacked the protesters with clubs thus sending them away.

Jackson and other demonstrators went into a restaurant called Mack’s Cafe. There, Jackson was shot in the stomach by James Bonard Fowler, a state trooper.

Jackson was seeming to protect his mother and 82 year old grandfather from the troopers.

Jackson’s murder was condemned by leaders of the Civil Rights Movement such as Martin Luther King Jr., who had visited Jackson while he was in the hospital.

Jackson inspired a, supposed to be peaceful, march now named the ‘Bloody Sunday’ after police were waiting with tear gas and batons.

The world seeing this made many people come around to the Civil Rights Movement.

His leagacy will be forever remembered.

THANK YOU JIMMIE LEE JACKSON