In 1951 a movement in the south which was an attempt to help
             civil rights and led to a serious of non-violent events. These events
             then later were disasters in black history and caused hundreds of
             African Americans to suffer. My story starts along that time line in
             which I had the devastation to watch my best friend fall to the people,
             the White community. I am a white male and I am proud of who I am and
             who I came to be. Jimmie Lee Jackson was born in 1938 the same year I
             was. We grew up as neighbors and I had known him very well all my life.
             An innocent young man who always wanted to look out for others black or
             white. His salary was also struck at $700.00 a year, and could not
             attend school with me for he was denied. The movement of civil rights
             was led by a man named Martin Luther King Jr. His non-violent approach
             towards helping blacks was hoped to gain a goal of what we know now as
             the salad bowl theory. Jackson was the youngest deacon at his church.
             As far as I know he was farming and logging for work. The movement
             began with marches and forceful action by the members of the Klan and
             police. American began to realize the pain of the black community.
             Around 9:30 pm of February 18, more then 200 marches began
             walking. The marchers were then asked to stop the revolt and leave. The
             lights in the street went out and caused total chaos. The troopers were
             beating men left and right, sometimes hitting the woman even. Jimmie
             and his family went inside a café for cover, but his dad was hit
             with a club and Jimmie tried to take him to the hospital but they
             couldn't get out. A trooper then struck his mother of the head and
             Jimmie retaliated by hitting the trooper. The other troopers began
             beating him senseless repeatedly. A man pulled out his gun and murdered
             my best friend. All Jimmie was doing was marching for his
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