Jimmie Lee Jackson

Target entity: Jimmie Lee Jackson
Context triple: [Lakeith Stanfield, portrayedCharacter, Jimmie Lee Jackson]

• A. James Byrd Jr.
  James Byrd Jr. was an African American man whose brutal 1998 racially motivated murder in Texas became a catalyst for strengthening U.S. hate crime legislation.
• B. Emmett Till
  Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy whose brutal 1955 lynching in Mississippi became a catalyst for the modern U.S. civil rights movement.
• C. Medgar Evers
  Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
• D. Ezell Blair Jr.
  Ezell Blair Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan) is a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American college students who initiated the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• E. Louis Till
  Louis Till was an African American man and U.S. Army private best known as the father of Emmett Till, whose life and controversial military death later drew renewed attention during the civil rights era.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Jimmie Lee Jackson
Target entity description: Jimmie Lee Jackson was a young African American civil rights activist whose 1965 killing by an Alabama state trooper became a catalyst for the Selma to Montgomery marches and the Voting Rights Act.

• A. James Byrd Jr.
  James Byrd Jr. was an African American man whose brutal 1998 racially motivated murder in Texas became a catalyst for strengthening U.S. hate crime legislation.
• B. Emmett Till
  Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy whose brutal 1955 lynching in Mississippi became a catalyst for the modern U.S. civil rights movement.
• C. Medgar Evers
  Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
• D. Ezell Blair Jr.
  Ezell Blair Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan) is a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American college students who initiated the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• E. Louis Till
  Louis Till was an African American man and U.S. Army private best known as the father of Emmett Till, whose life and controversial military death later drew renewed attention during the civil rights era.
• F. None of above. chosen