Description: (African American Civil Rights Activist)
Jimmie Lee Jackson, a devoted civil rights activist and Baptist church deacon, spent his life advocating for equal voting rights for African Americans in Marion, Alabama. He engaged in peaceful protests and marches to support his community's rights. His untimely death by an Alabama state trooper during a voting rights march stirred national uproar and was instrumental in the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.