In this Feb. 16, 2020, photo, Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner Jr. poses for a photograph in the pews of the Marion Baptist Academy before Jimmie Lee Jackson day in Marion, Ala. What happened in Marion is now a little-remembered episode in the civil rights movement, a footnote in the textbooks. "Starting the story in Selma is like reading a book by starting in the middle and not going back to the beginning so you can get the total picture of what?actually happene…
March 7, 2020
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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.