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James Reeb was a Unitarian Universalist minister who participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 and was murdered by white supremacists. He was a social justice advocate who worked with the poor and African Americans in Washington, D.C., and Boston.
May 14, 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.
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...
James Reeb was a white minister who was beaten and killed by white supremacists in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. This podcast explores the facts, the evidence and the lies behind this unsolved civil rights-era crime.
Mar 27, 2023 · James Reeb was a social worker and Unitarian minister who was beaten and killed by white supremacists in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. His death sparked national outrage and led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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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.
