FILE - In this February 1965 , file photo, Viola Jackson, left, mother of Jimmie Lee Jackson, 26, who died, Feb. 26, 1965 at a Selma, Ala., hospital from a gunshot wound suffered in race violence in Marion, Ala. Also pictured is his cousin Rachel Thomas, center, and Cager Lee, grandfather. (AP Photo/Horace Cort, File)
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March 7, 2020 9:51 p.m.
Civil rights: The road to Bloody Sunday began 30 miles away
MARION, Ala. (AP) — Della Simpson Maynor remembers the mounted police officer cracking her elbow with a baton. She recalls the panicked marchers unable to escape the onslaught, and the scuffle between officers and a young church deacon who was trying to protect his mother and grandfather. Most of all, she remembers the gunshot.