Marion in Perry County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)

Jimmie Lee Jackson
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Jackson's Death Led to 'Bloody Sunday' March

Jimmie Lee Jackson Marker (front) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Hilton, April 28, 2018

1. Jimmie Lee Jackson Marker (front)

Inscription.

Jimmie Lee Jackson, also, Jackson's Death Led to 'Bloody Sunday' March. . Jimmie Lee Jackson Voting Rights Martyr. The death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot after police disrupted a peaceful nighttime demonstration in Marion, inspired the first attempted march from Selma to Montgomery that led to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. , Jackson, a 26-year-old black Army veteran, church deacon and hospital employee, had been active in efforts to register black voters. He himself had been denied five times., On Feb. 18, 1965, police arrested voting rights organizer James Orange. That night Albert Turner and the Rev. James Dobynes led several hundred protesters two abreast out of Zion Methodist Church towards the jail a block away. The streetlights went out. Scores of local white police, along with sheriff's deputies and state troopers under the direction of Col. Al Lingo, attacked marchers and news reporters. Jackson's Death Led to 'Bloody Sunday' March. A group of protesters pursued by troopers ran behind Zion church into Mack's Cafe. Cager Lee, 82, was clubbed to the floor, along with daughter Viola Jackson, whose son Jimmie Lee was shot in the stomach while trying to help. He died eight days later. Strategist James Bevel suggested a procession to Montgomery to confront Gov. George Wallace. , Some 600 marchers were routed by club-swinging lawmen at the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, Bloody Sunday.' An attempt on March 9 was cancelled. On March 21, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led several thousand marchers to Montgomery. They reached the State Capitol in four days, their numbers swollen to 25,000. , In 2005, retired trooper James Bonard Fowler told the Anniston Star that he shot Jackson. In 2010, District Attorney Michael Jackson obtained a guilty plea to manslaughter from Fowler, then 77. Fowler served five months before being released for health reasons. Jimmie Lee Jackson's tragic story was featured in the 2015 film Selma., This marker unveiled in August, 2015, the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Jimmie Lee Jackson
Voting Rights Martyr The death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot after police disrupted a peaceful nighttime demonstration in Marion, inspired the first attempted march from Selma to Montgomery that led to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Jackson, a 26-year-old black Army veteran, church deacon and hospital employee, had been active in efforts to register black voters. He himself had been denied five times.

On Feb. 18, 1965, police arrested voting rights organizer James Orange. That night Albert Turner and the Rev. James Dobynes led several hundred protesters two abreast out of Zion Methodist Church towards the jail a block away. The streetlights went out. Scores of local white police, along with sheriff's deputies and state troopers under the direction of Col. Al Lingo, attacked marchers and news reporters.

Jackson's Death Led to 'Bloody Sunday' March A group of protesters pursued by troopers ran behind Zion church into Mack's Cafe. Cager Lee, 82, was clubbed to the floor, along with daughter Viola Jackson, whose son Jimmie Lee was shot in the stomach while trying to help. He

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died eight days later. Strategist James Bevel suggested a procession to Montgomery to confront Gov. George Wallace.

Some 600 marchers were routed by club-swinging lawmen at the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, Bloody Sunday.' An attempt on March 9 was cancelled. On March 21, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led several thousand marchers to Montgomery. They reached the State Capitol in four days, their numbers swollen to 25,000.

In 2005, retired trooper James Bonard Fowler told the Anniston Star that he shot Jackson. In 2010, District Attorney Michael Jackson obtained a guilty plea to manslaughter from Fowler, then 77. Fowler served five months before being released for health reasons. Jimmie Lee Jackson's tragic story was featured in the 2015 film Selma.

This marker unveiled in August, 2015,
the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Erected 2015.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Civil Rights. A significant historical month for this entry is August 2015.

Location. 32° 37.959′ N, 87° 19.088′ W. Marker is in Marion, Alabama, in Perry County. It is at the intersection

Jackson's Death Led to 'Bloody Sunday' March Marker (rear) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Hilton, April 28, 2018

2. Jackson's Death Led to 'Bloody Sunday' March Marker (rear)

of Pickens Street and Jackson Street, on the right when traveling south on Pickens Street. Located on the grounds of the Perry County Courthouse. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 301 Pickens St, Marion AL 36756, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the American South,

specifically in the Deep South,

and in the Black Belt.

Globally, it is in North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: A Seed is Planted (within shouting distance of this marker); Marion (within shouting distance of this marker); Nicola Marschall (within shouting distance of this marker); Perry County Veterans Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Confederate 6-pounder Field Gun (within shouting distance of this marker); Muckle's Ridge (about 300 feet away, measured

Marker at the Perry County Courthouse. image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Hilton, April 28, 2018

3. Marker at the Perry County Courthouse.

in a direct line); Honoring: Reverend James Orange (about 400 feet away); In Memory of Albert Turner, Sr. (about 400 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Marion.

Also see . . . Wikipedia article on the Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson. (Submitted on April 28, 2018, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.)

View of marker at intersection of Pickens and Jackson Streets. image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Hilton, April 28, 2018

4. View of marker at intersection of Pickens and Jackson Streets.

Credits. This page was last revised on March 8, 2024. It was originally submitted on April 28, 2018, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama. This page has been viewed 1,706 times since then and 81 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on April 28, 2018, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.

Jimmie Lee Jackson⎯⎯⎯Jackson's Death Led to 'Bloody Sunday' March

Jimmie Lee Jackson
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Jackson's Death Led to 'Bloody Sunday' March