His name was James Reeb. A civil rights activist and SCLC member who was murdered by white segregationist on March 11, 1965, in Selma, Alabama. In December of 1965 and all-white jury after 90 minutes acquitted three of the four men charged with his murder.
With his death came the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Like so many other clergy from northern states. James Reeb saw the atrocities going on in Selma on Bloody Sunday on his black and white television, so when Dr. Martin Luther King issued a nationwide call to the clergy to travel to Alabama and stand in unity with African Americans in the right to vote James Reeb left his wife and four children and traveled to Selma. Reeb, was among the many clergy that heeded the call and went to Alabama.
Following demonstrations and…
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