Without Jimmie Lee Jackson, there would have been no Barack Obama or Kamala Harris
2 years ago
Some civil rights activists gathered at the Zion United Methodist Church in Marion, Alabama, on the evening of February 18, 1965. Their mission: to march in support of James Orange, the field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) who had been arrested not too long ago. At the start of the demonstration, Alabama...