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Jimmie Lee and James audiobook
- By: Adar Cohen
- Category: General, History
- Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: June 30, 2015
- Language: English
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Jimmie Lee and James Audiobook Summary
“Bloody Sunday”-March 7, 1965-was a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle. The national outrage generated by scenes of Alabama state troopers attacking peaceful demonstrators fueled the drive toward the passage of the Voting Rights Acts later that year. But why were hundreds of activists marching from Selma to Montgomery that afternoon?
Days earlier, during the crackdown on another protest in nearby Marion, a state trooper, claiming self-defense, shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, a twenty-six-year-old unarmed deacon and civil rights protester. Jackson’s subsequent death spurred local civil rights leaders to make the march to Montgomery; when that day also ended in violence, the call went out to activists across the nation to join in the next attempt. One of the many who came down was a minister from Boston named James Reeb. Shortly after his arrival, he was attacked in the street by racist vigilantes, eventually dying of his injuries. Lyndon Johnson evoked Reeb’s memory when he brought his voting rights legislation to Congress, and the national outcry over the brutal killings ensured its passage.
Most histories of the civil rights movement note these two deaths briefly, before moving on to the more famous moments. This book gives listeners a deeper understanding of the events that galvanized an already-strong civil rights movement to one of its greatest successes, along with the herculean efforts to bring the killers of these two men to justice-a quest that would last more than four decades.
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Jimmie Lee and James Full Details
| Length | 7 hours 44 minutes |
| Author | Adar Cohen |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Tantor Media, Inc |
| Release date | June 30, 2015 |
| ISBN | 9781494580919 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Jimmie Lee and James is Tantor Media, Inc. includes the following subjects: Selma, Alabama, Montgomery, History, General, History, United States, 20th Century, History, United States, State & Local, South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), Political Science, General, Political Science, Civil Rights The BISAC Subject Code is General, History
Additional info
The publisher of the Jimmie Lee and James is Tantor Media, Inc. The imprint is Tantor Media, Inc. It is supplied by Tantor Media, Inc. The ISBN-13 is 9781494580919.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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