Home Science Technology Voices of Selma: The death of Jimmie Lee Jackson

Vera Booker was a 29-year-old nurse at Selma's black-run Good Samaritan Hospital and treated Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old black man who was shot by a white state trooper in February 1965. His death was the inspiration for the Bloody Sunday March to Montgomery.

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