James Reeb

James Reeb (1927-1965) was a social worker and Unitarian Universalist minister who was killed by segregationists in Selma in 1965. Reeb's death was pivotal toward passage of the Voting Rights Act that year by the U.S. Congress.

Portrait of civil rights martyr James Reeb
Courtesy of the Unitarian Universalist Association

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Portrait of civil rights martyr James Reeb