memoir

Jimmie Lee JacksonJimmie Lee Jackson was shot and killed by an Alabama state trooper in 1965 his death inspired a civil rights demonstration that led to the Voting Rights Act. Martin Luther King Jr.Martin Luther King Jr. was a scholar and minister who led the civil rights movement. Following his assassination, he was memorialized by Martin Luther King Jr. By the early 1960s, Malcolm X had emerged as a leading voice of a radicalized wing of the civil rights movement, presenting a dramatic alternative to Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a racially-integrated society achieved by peaceful suggests. Malcolm X...