On this day in 2007, former Alabama state trooper James Fowler was indicted for the Feb. 18, 1965, killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today May 10, 2023 MAY 10, 2007 Left to right, John Lewis, Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Andrew Young attended the 1965 funeral of Jimmie Lee Jackson, whose death inspired the Selma march to Montgomery. An Alabama grand jury indicted former state trooper James Bonard Fowler for the Feb. 18, 1965, killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was trying to protect his mother from being beaten at Mack’s Café.
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