Jimmie Lee Jackson https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/jimmie-lee-jackson/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:05:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Jimmie Lee Jackson https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/jimmie-lee-jackson/ 32 32 16720591 NYTimes video remembers the 1965 Selma James Reeb attack https://www.quakerranter.org/nytimes-video-remembers-the-1965-selma-james-reeb-attack/ https://www.quakerranter.org/nytimes-video-remembers-the-1965-selma-james-reeb-attack/#respond Fri, 06 Mar 2015 22:53:00 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=37328

One of the white ministers with James Reeb in the 1965 attack that helped propel the Voting Rights Act remembers the night.

He also reflects on the value of white lives vs. black lives for national attention in the Civil Rights Movement. While the actual Selma march was protesting the killing of black civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson by a state trooper, national outrage focused on the visiting white minister.

In 1967, Dr. King noted, “The failure to mention Jimmy [sic] Jackson only reinforced the impression that to white Americans the life of a Negro is insignificant and meaningless.”

Don’t miss Gail Whiffen Coyle’s overview of contemporary Friends Journal coverage of Selma on our website.

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