Jimmie Lee Jackson26 February 1965
His death inspires the Selma to Montgomery march.
United States · Politics / Civil Rights. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
His death inspires the Selma to Montgomery march.
Helps shape the Selma voting rights campaign.
Is beaten unconscious during the bridge attack.
Local law enforcement confronts voting rights demonstrators.
Media coverage spreads news of the attack.
Orders marchers to disperse before troopers attack.
Local voter registration struggle frames the march.
SNCC activists support local demands for voting rights.
Marches for voting rights on Bloody Sunday.
Faces national outrage after the bridge attack.
Learns that marchers have been attacked in Selma.
Is absent when local civil rights leaders march from Selma and are attacked.
SCLC supports the voting rights campaign, but King is not on the first march.
Leads marchers toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Commands Alabama troopers at the bridge confrontation.
Photographs help publicise violence on the bridge.
Young local activists support the voting rights march.
Supports the voting rights campaign that led to the march.
His earlier arrest helps intensify the Selma campaign.
Supports the voting rights campaign in Alabama.
Opposes the march and defends segregationist state authority.
Co-leads the first Selma to Montgomery march.
Works with SCLC during the Selma campaign.
Joins efforts to continue the march after the violence.
Voting rights campaigners connect Selma to wider disenfranchisement.
Federal officials respond to the crisis after Bloody Sunday.
Helps national support build after the televised violence.
Dies after being attacked during Selma campaign events.
Calls for voting rights legislation after Selma.
Later permits the protected Selma to Montgomery march.
Is murdered after supporting the Selma voting rights campaign.
Signs the Voting Rights Act after the Selma campaign.
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