Steve Fiffer

Steve Fiffer is the co-author with Adar Cohen of the nonfiction book Jimmie Lee and James. More recently he collaborated with the late C.T. Vivian on the memoir It’s in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior.

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CHANGEMAKERS

The Deep South Couple Working 24/7 for Social Justice

He’s the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, and she’s a department head at Jackson State. They raise their children the way they were raised: See a problem, find a remedy.

Steve Fiffer

TIPPING POINT

Two Murders That Ignited Passage of the Voting Rights Act

Jimmie Lee Jackson and James Reeb were civil rights protesters who were brutally murdered in Alabama in 1965. They did not die in vain.

Steve Fiffer