In this Feb. 16, 2020, photo, wreaths and mementos adorn the grave of Jimmie Lee Jackson at Heard Cemetery in Marion, Ala. In 1965, in what has become a footnote to history, Jimmie Lee Jackson was fatally shot at a protest in Marion. It was that killing that sent hundreds of people to Selma for a march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge two weeks later.(AP Photo/Julie Bennett)
March 7, 2020
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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.