James Reeb, a minister from Casper, Wyo., was murdered by four white supremacists on March 9, 1965, while participating in the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala ...

Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a crowd of 25,000 on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (center left), Rev. Ralph Abernathy (center right), and Archbishop Iakovos (far right) attend a memorial service for James Reeb. Reeb, a white Unitarian minister from ...

Two days later, James Reeb, a Unitarian minister who arrived in Selma after the attacks to support the protest, was severely beaten after leaving an integrated restaurant on the evening of March 9th.

Boyd also mentioned the Revs. Clark Olsen, Orloff Miller and James J. Reeb, all three of whom were Unitarian ministers who came to Selma to help.

March 9, 1965 – Unitarian Universalist minister James Reeb, in Selma to join marchers, is attacked by a group of white men and beaten. He dies of his injuries two days later.

March 9, 1965 – Unitarian Universalist minister James Reeb, in Selma to join marchers, is attacked by a group of white men and beaten. He dies of his injuries two days later.

Olsen said he is "very much aware" that he could have died instead of Reeb. — -- Rev. Clark Olsen, who was with civil rights activist James Reeb the night he was murdered in Selma, Alabama in ...

Author Adar Cohen describes the circumstances that led to the deaths of Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion, AL and James Reeb in Selma, AL. He explains the significance of how these murders ignited ...