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. More in U.S.

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 ...

Bell Ringer: The Murders of Jimmie Lee Jackson and James Reeb. ... AL, and the impact these had on the Civil Rights movement, specifically on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery, AL Voting Rights March. ...

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

March 11: Boston minister James Reeb, who had traveled to Selma to take part in the voting rights marches, dies after being clubbed on the head by an attacker. He had been set upon by white ...

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 ...

That day became known as "Bloody Sunday," when activists attempted to peacefully march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, ... (far right) attend a memorial service for James Reeb. Reeb, ...