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Crime & Justice
Two Murders That Ignited Passage of the Voting Rights Act
TIPPING POINT
Jimmie Lee Jackson and James Reeb were civil rights protesters who were brutally murdered in Alabama in 1965. They did not die in vain.
Steve Fiffer
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Apr. 23 2021
11:34PM EDT
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