In addition to the events at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, there was a nighttime march. During this march, some inhabitants of the town and state troopers began to attack the marchers after they refused to leave. Jimmie Lee Jackson was one of the victims of the attacks. Jackson was a civil rights activist and associated with the SCLC. At the march, he was shot by an Alabama state trooper and died about a week later. His death serves as an example of injustice in the Selma March as “he was murdered by the irresponsibility of every politician from governments on down who have fed his constituents the stale bread of hatred and spoiled meat of racism” (Eye on the Prize). The constituents of the government make up the authors of the master narrative …show more content…
James Reeb was a white man who joined the Selma movement after the first march and was returning from a diner with a small group of other protesters after the event. There was another group of men across the street that began to yell racial slurs at the men. Reeb’s group continued walking, but the other men began to approach them. One of the approaching men was carrying a club and hit Reeb. Reeb died two days after the attack which led to a national outcry. Many people outside of Selma protested to condemn the attack. This event further supports that the Selma March was not just as an innocent man died for simply participating in a peaceful march. Other reasoning for his death validating the idea that the march was unjust coincides with the reasons with Jackson’s death. Reeb was a victim of racist ideology as evident by the men who yelled slurs at him and attacked him for participating in the march. However, this situation is not the same as Jackson since Reeb’s case demonstrates the people who help to enforce racial ideologies. Instead of structure being the component to racial formation in this situation, it is the social representation that is shown. Reeb’s death indicated the injustice as the hegemonic views on voting rights led to his