Jim Letherer
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title:
Jim Letherer
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James M. Letherer, born and died in Saginaw, Michigan, better known as Jim Letherer, was an American civil rights activist. He walked on crutches the entire 54 miles of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights, and in 1966 walked with Martin Luther King Jr. in James Meredith's Mississippi March Against Fear. Letherer lost his right leg to cancer when he was ten years old. Letherer has received honors by the Selma to Montgomery Interpretive Center Museum in Alabama, which hosts a life
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US civil rights activist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Letherer
date created:
2015-03-19T15:57:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T19:39:58Z
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