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Civil Rights foot soldier Della Simpson Maynor talks on May 19, 2023, about being clubbed by police on Feb. 18, 1965, the night activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was fatally wounded, while seated near the scene of the confrontation in Zion Church in Marion, Ala. The 14-year-old Maynor was part of a group planning to march to the Perry County jail where a local SCLC field secretary was being held for registering voters. Maynor also heard the gunshots that killed Jackson during the struggle. (AP Photo/Julie Bennett)

Civil Rights foot soldier Della Simpson Maynor talks on May 19, 2023, about being clubbed by police on Feb. 18, 1965, the night activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was fatally wounded, while seated near the scene of the confrontation in Zion Church in Marion, Ala. The 14-year-old Maynor was part of a group planning to march to the Perry County jail where a local SCLC field secretary was being held for registering voters. Maynor also heard the gunshots that killed Jackson during the struggle. (AP Photo/Julie Bennett)

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