People knew about the injustice Floyd suffered, but no one remembered Jackson. Jimmie Lee deserved to have his ... there's a Civil Rights Memorial Park to the right and a National Votings ...

Jimmie Lee Jackson would see none of it ... Jackson's face is engraved on another memorial plaque. These permanent markers represent his enduring legacy. “He was the first martyr of the ...

Last week Mayor Bill Stankiewicz and other local officials gathered together with family and relatives of the late Mayor Jimmy Lee Jackson to celebrate the opening of the new memorial park in ...

Here, the croaks of hidden frogs and tweets from nearby birds serve as the soundtrack for Jimmie Lee Jackson’s grave. Jackson was 26 years old when he died. He was a black man who was denied the ...

And they wanted paved streets in black neighborhoods. Jimmie Lee Jackson was fatally shot by a state trooper at a civil rights protest on Feb. 18, 1965. On Feb. 3, 1965, the conference staged an ...

Jimmy Lee Jackson was shot in the stomach two weeks ago; he died last Friday morning. His death will probably prove, for the ten thousandth time, that it is not a crime for a white man to kill a ...