On This Day In Alabama History: James Bonard Fowler Pleaded Guilty In Death Of Jimmie Lee Jackson

Alabama News Center | November 15, 2018 @ 5:00 am

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

Nov. 15, 2010

On the night of Feb. 18, 1965, civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot twice in the belly and died after local police and state troopers attacked nonviolent voting rights marchers in the town of Marion. His death, at 26, sparked the first of what became known as the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, including infamous Bloody Sunday, that led to the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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