John Flemming from the Anniston Star has discovered important documents from the FBI’s 1965 investigation of the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson.
An FBI file about a 1965 shooting that provided a catalyst for the Selma-to-Montgomery March contains eyewitness accounts as well as a statement from the victim, who later died.
The file, obtained by The Anniston […]
I said a couple of things in my post about the James Bonard Fowler indictment that really deserve more nuance. Fortunately Kenneth Mullinax wrote an article last week that hits some of the notes that I missed.
I emphasized the importance of prosecution of the Fowler indictment for Jimmie Lee Jackson’s family, but I overstated the […]
From the NY Times:
A grand jury in Alabama handed up an indictment on Wednesday in an obscure killing that helped inspire the historic Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965. The case is the latest in a series of belated prosecutions of crimes from the civil rights era.In February 1965, a black farmer, Jimmie Lee Jackson, 26, […]
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
My new article came out today in the Black Commentator. Here is the opening section:
The Black Commentator
September 21, 2006 - Issue 198
Who Killed Jimmie Lee Jackson?
by Benjamin Greenberg
Guest Commentator
Jimmie Lee Jackson did not live to see his grandfather, Cager Lee, finally receive a voting card in his early 80s at the Marion, Alabama Town Hall, […]
By Marsha Rose Joyner
For: Linda
From: MarshaRose
“Child of pure unclouded brow
And dreaming eyes of wonder!
Though time be fleet, and I and thou
Are half a life asunder,
Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love gift of a fairy tale”.
by Lewis Carroll
Time and distance dims memories!
And we all edit our thoughts.
As the White Queen said, “What good is a […]
I wish I could show you one of Linda’s photographs. I wrote to one of Linda’s dearest friends, Marsha Joyner (who publishes on HungryBlues from time to time) that Linda had a genius for seeing the beauty in people. This was evident in many ways, but it was really striking in her photographs.
To what I […]
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DSCN0184.jpg, originally uploaded by BenTG.
I took this photo of Linda and Scott B when I was with them in Montgomery, AL last summer.
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Those were the first words from Scott B. Smith, Jr when he reached me on the phone earlier this afternoon.
He wanted to inform me and all who knew her that Linda Dehnad, his wife, died this morning of undetermined causes at age 69. Linda went to Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, AL last night because she […]
Thursday, December 1, 2005
By Donnie Williams
Because of Rosa Parks and many of the unknown Montgomery residents that were involved in the bus boycott and a lot more, Montgomery is a better place but we need to be better.
The Rosa Parks bus, the real one, is in Detroit at the Henry Ford Museum. It used to be here […]
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
By Marsha Joyner
Former President of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Coalition-Hawaii, Marsha Joyner, has name inscribed on the “Wall of Tolerance” at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama
10-2005
We came in road-weary VW Buses, with backpacks and sleeping bags, willing to sleep on any floor, withstand certain adversity, every abuse and encounter death, to […]
(Via Marsha Joyner.)
Ted Poston, “They Are No Longer Afraid.” The New York Post
June 19, 1956.
You’d been living with [the bus boycott] daily for nearly three weeks in Montgomery, but you couldn’t quite put your finger on it. Only through the words of others were you finally able to articulate a feeling, which had been with […]
Thursday, November 3, 2005
I don’t have a TV, so it was Brandon who tipped me off that Julian Bond was one of the speakers at the Capital Rotunda, while Rosa Parks was lying in state. As usual, Bond is excellent—giving a nuanced treatment of Parks’ life and exploding the myth that the nonviolent movement and those who advocated […]
In The Blogosphere
One year ago today, on August 13, 2004, Winston “DeRoyal” Carter was found hanging from a tree on County Road 65 in Tuskegee, AL. DeRoyal was 29 years old. DeRoyal was an African American man.
The story wasn’t going to get outside of Tuskegee, except a brave individual got the matter to the attention […]
Timothy Mays was a former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker and member of the Black Panthers in Lowndes County, Alabama. He became famous to the world on March 7, 1965 in Selma, Alabama. Mays was among the civil rights marchers who set out that day to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge and were beaten […]
Scott B. Smith looks out at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of Bloody Sunday and early point on the Selma to
Montgomery March (photo by Benjamin T. Greenberg).
For more about Scott B., see:
Cleophus Hobbs Day
Sitting across from a black panther, watching him eat octopus
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