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In this Feb. 16, 2020, photo, Julia Cash, cousin of Jimmie Lee Jackson, speaks at the Marion Baptist Academy in Marion, Ala. "Jimmie was one of the nicest, most mannerable persons that I knew. He always had a smile on his face," Cash said, "and what was most impressive is he always took time for older people." (AP Photo/Julie Bennett)

In this Feb. 16, 2020, photo, Julia Cash, cousin of Jimmie Lee Jackson, speaks at the Marion Baptist Academy in Marion, Ala. "Jimmie was one of the nicest, most mannerable persons that I knew. He always had a smile on his face," Cash said, "and what was most impressive is he always took time for older people." (AP Photo/Julie Bennett)

March 7, 2020

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Civil rights: The road to Bloody Sunday began 30 miles away
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.