Jimmie Lee Jackson was a civil rights protestor who was shot and killed by Alabama State Trooper James Bonnard Fowler in 1965. Jackson was unarmed. He Was a African American, He was born December 1965 and he died at the age 26 on February 26, 1965.
He was willing to risk his life by defending his mother Viola, and his 82 year-old grandfather Cager Lee Jackson, who were being beaten by state troopers and other law enforcement officials. Jackson was also beaten and then shot in the stomach by trooper James Bonnard Fowler. He was taken to Perry County Hospital and later transferred to Good Samaritan Hospital in selma.
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