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James Joseph Reeb (January 1, 1927 – March 11, 1965) was an American Unitarian Universalist minister, pastor, and activist during the civil rights movement in Washington, D.C., and Boston, Massachusetts.
14 de mai. de 2019 · In 1965, civil rights supporter James Reeb, a white Unitarian minister, was murdered in Selma, Ala. Three men were arrested, tried and acquitted. No one was ever held to account.
James Reeb was a white clergyman who joined Martin Luther King's Selma to Montgomery March in 1965 and was beaten by white supremacists. He died two days later and became a symbol of the nonviolent movement for voting rights.
This essay details James Reeb’s calling to become a minister and—eventually—to join the march in Selma. Although he was tragically murdered following the march, his death had a profound impact on the civil rights movement.
The Rev. James Reeb was a white Unitarian Universalist minister who worked with poor people in Boston. Although he was married and had four young children, he answered the call of Dr. Martin Luther King for clergy to come to Selma, Alabama, to protest violence by state troopers against civil rights marchers. On March 9, 1965, Reeb and two other ...
James Reeb died 50 years ago today, after a vicious beating by white segregationists in Selma, Ala. But those at the DC church where he once ministered recalled his life of commitment and...
On March 9, 1965, James Reeb, a 38-year-old white Unitarian minister and civil rights activist who lived in Boston, Massachusetts, was in Selma, Alabama, to take part in a march led by Dr....
