Frederick D. Reese

Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) leader Frederick D. Reese sits behind the podium at a voting rights meeting in Montgomery around 1967. Reese was a high school teacher and founder of the organization and became its president after the first president, Sam Boynton, died.

Frederick D. Reese seated on a church pew, viewed in profile inside a simple wooden sanctuary.
Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
Frederick D. Reese seated on a church pew, viewed in profile inside a simple wooden sanctuary.