James Reeb - Wikipedia
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. While participating in the Selma to Montgomery marches actions in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, he was murdered by white segregationists and ...
The Murder Of The Rev. James Reeb - NPR
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.
Reeb, James | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and ...
Reeb, James. January 1, 1927 to March 11, 1965. James Reeb, a white Unitarian minister, became nationally known as a martyr to the civil rights cause when he died on 11 March 1965, in Selma, Alabama, after being attacked by a group of white supremacists. Reeb had traveled to Selma to answer Martin Luther King’s call for clergy to support the ...
James Reeb - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Mar 27, 2023 · James Reeb. A social worker and Unitarian Universalist minister, James Reeb (1927-1965) was severely beaten by a group of white men in Selma on March 9, 1965. Reeb died of head trauma two days later in a Birmingham hospital. His death shocked the nation and was referred to in a press conference by Pres. Lyndon Johnson, who then asked Congress ...
White Lies: A True Crime Story Of An Unsolved Civil Rights ...
In 1965, the Rev. James Reeb was murdered in Selma, Ala. Three men were tried and acquitted, but no one was ever held to account. Fifty years later, two journalists from Alabama return to the city where it happened, expose the lies that kept the murder from being solved and uncover a story about guilt and memory that says as much about America today as it does about the past.
James Reeb died in Selma 50 years ago today. He should be ...
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 compassion.
Civil Rights Activist James Reeb's Murder Might Have Been ...
Jul 9, 2019 · William Widmer for NPR. The murder of the Rev. James Reeb was unsolved for more than 50 years. Then last month, using the FBI's case file, NPR identified a man who had participated in the attack ...