Jimmie Lee Jackson's Injustice

Without Jimmie Lee Jackson the black community would still have injustice today the same as they did on the night of February 1965, when a Alabama state trooper named James Bond Fowler shot Jimmie Lee Jackson in Mack’s Cafe. Jimmie was trying to protect his mother as she was being beaten by another state trooper. Jimmie, his family, and some other blacks had run in the Mack’s Cafe. The were hiding there because the troopers tried to stop the protest that they had been taking part in that night in front of the Perry County Jail. They were protesting there because of the arrest of James Orange. James Orange was one of the most important civil right activist in Alabama. Jimmie died eight days after he was shot because of his wounds. In the hospital he was visited by John Lewis, James Bevel, and Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King also spoke at Jimmie’s funeral , Martin call Jimmie , “a martyred hero of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity”(Martin Luther King).

Jimmie was born in Marion, Alabama. He was born on December 16 1938. He died at age 26, he was a former soldier, youngest deacon at his church, and a father of a young daughter. …show more content…
Jimmie himself tried to register to vote a least 5 times, but got pushed away everytime. But it was hard to protest because of brutal local police department, one of the toughest guy in the police department was the sheriff named James Clark. Martin Luther King had a idea that he thought would capture the attention of the nation. His idea was to use nonviolence. He thought that if some white person started kicking you and you just layed there and didn’t fight back maybe they would realise that what they were doing was