Jimmie Lee Jackson would be 86 years young this year. Born in 1938 in Marion, Alabama in Perry County to Farmer Jimmie Lee Jackson and housewife Viola Jackson, His father died when he was 18.
Jimmie Lee Jackson is the very epitome of an American Civil Rights Martyr.
Ordained in the summer of 1964, the youngest deacon of his St. James Baptist Church in Marion, Jimmie Lee Jackson attempted to register to vote for four years, without success due to the discriminatory system of Systemic racism maintained by Alabama officials since the turn of the 20th century. His mother Viola Jackson and maternal grandfather Cager Lee had also attempted to register, also unsuccessfully.
Jimmie Lee Jackson was inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King. He help local activist in voter registration, he was in spired when. Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Confe…
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