Claim: Jim Letherer (born December 30, 1933) lost his leg to cancer at ten years old, but in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights, he still walked the entire 54 miles on crutches and in 1966 he walked with Martin Luther King Jr. in James Meredith's Mississippi March Against Fear.
Evidence: James M. Letherer (December 30, 1933 – December 18, 2001), born and died in Saginaw, Michigan, better known as Jim Letherer, was an American civil rights activist. Letherer lost his right leg to cancer when he was ten years old. 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.