In this Feb. 19, 2020, photo, Fairest Cureton speaks about his cousin, Jimmie Lee Jackson, during an interview in Selma, Ala. "Jimmie had been the man of the house after his father died, Cureton said. His aunt "was never right?again after Jimmie was killed." (AP Photo/Gary Fields)
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.