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AMYGOODMAN: A white former Alabama state trooper has pleaded guilty to killing a black civil rights worker 45 years ago at the height of the civil rights movement. Seventy-seven-year-old James Bonard Fowler pled guilty to one count of second-degree manslaughter two weeks before he was set to go to trial.

He had been charged with two counts of murder in the shooting of year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson during a melee in a restaurant in Marion, Alabama. Fowler was sentenced to six months in prison and six months of unsupervised probation.

Jackson&#;s killing was a cornerstone in the civil rights movement. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

preached at his funeral. His death set off the first Selma-to-Montgomery march that became known as &#;Bloody Sunday,&#; when Alabama police attacked demonstrators crossing a bridge, an event many say helped lead to the Voting Rights Act of

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