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