Jimmie Lee & James Two lives, two deaths, and the movement that changed America
Book - 2015
"Bloody Sunday"--March 7, 1965--was a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle. Days earlier, during the crackdown on another protest in nearby Marion, a state trooper, claiming self-defense, shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old unarmed deacon and civil rights protester. Jackson's subsequent death spurred local civil rights leaders to make the march to Montgomery; when that day also ended in violence, the call went out to activists across the nation to join in the next attempt. One of the many who came down was a minister from Boston named James Reeb. Shortly after his arrival, he was attacked in the street by racist vigilantes, eventually dying of his injuries. Lyndon Johnson evoked Reeb's memory when he brought hi...s voting rights legislation to Congress, and the national outcry over the brutal killings ensured its passage.
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Regan Arts
2015.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- First Regan Arts hardcover edition
- Physical Description
- xviii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781941393482
- Author Note
- Prologue
- Chapter 1. "I Was Half Dead Anyway..."
- Chapter 2. "I Got Him..."
- Chapter 3. "We Are Going to See the Governor!"
- Chapter 4. "You and the Two Girls are Next..."
- Chapter 5. "How Do You Murder People?"
- Chapter 6. "They Just Flushed Out Like Birds..."
- Chapter 7. "One Good Man..."
- Chapter 8. "We Have a New Song to Sing..."
- Chapter 9. "He Had to Die for Something..."
- Chapter 10. "A Most Unusual Occurrence..."
- Chapter 11. "He's Gonna Have to Go to Jail..."
- Chapter 12. "A Dagger into the Heart"
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index