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SELMA, Ala. - March 25, 1965, marked a turning point in ... That night, a mob found and murdered James Reeb, a white minister who had joined the march. Dr. King sought and received help from ...
That day became known as "Bloody Sunday," when activists attempted to peacefully march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, while on their way to ... attend a memorial service for James Reeb.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. As he walked through the beginning portion of the Legacy Museum on which either side of the path were ...
The Rev. James J. Reeb, a Boston minister who was attacked by a white gang Tuesday in Selma, Alabama died last night of multiple skull fractures. Four or five white men assaulted Reeb and two ...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march—one of the most defining moments in the U.S. civil rights movement (writes the U.S author and historian, Forest Issac Jones).
As a twentysomething freelance journalist at the Birmingham News, James "Spider" Martin ... attempted to peacefully march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, while on their way to Montgomery ...