Selma Events Kick Off With Jimmy Lee Jackson Play
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Selma kicked off it’s events earlier today with a performance commemorating one of the martyrs who died.
Local high school and college students performed “Jimmy Lee”. The play was about Jimmy Lee Jackson, a civil rights activist who was shot by an Alabama State Trooper in 1965 to protect his mother after a night March. About 20 students were part of the performance, which was hosted by Judson College.
“Jimmy Lee and his story was really the beginning, in a very national way, of the Civil Rights movement. Which led to the Voter’s Registration Act, and the terrible events of Bloody Sunday,” said Dr. Terry Morgan with Judson College.
