Jury Selection Begins For Civil-Rights Cold Case: Jury selection begins Monday for a 45-year-old civil rights case in Alabama.
A former state trooper is charged with murder in the shooting death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a black protester who was killed in 1965. Jackson's death united civil rights leaders across the country and led to the historic Selma-to-Montgomery march.
Marion, Ala., 1965
In the Deep South of 1965, segregation was the law of the land. Anyone who protested against the system was met with violence.
Not far from Selma, Ala., in Marion, a group of African Americans was gathering in a church at night. Alabama state troopers, including James Bonard Fowler, were called in to break up the meeting, and using billy clubs, they began beating protestors, including 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson.
