Another excerpt from Dr. King's eulogy for James Reeb in Selma, Alabama, in March 1965, as cited by Pierce:

#CivilRights #BloodySunday #JamesReeb #Selma

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Prior to his murder, the national press tended to ignore violence being visited by white men on black civil rights marchers, including the murder of Jimmy Lee Jackson in Marion, Alabama, in February 1965.

Charles Pierce says that this is the real history of our nation that some people want to suppress, to keep children from learning — the ongoing struggle for justice that forms the core narrative of an always unfinished American democracy.

#CivilRights #BloodySunday #JamesReeb #Selma

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Yesterday, Charles Pierce memorialized James Reeb, a Unitarian minister from Boston who died on 11 March 1965 after having been savagely beaten by white men in Selma, Alabama, after he and two other Unitarian ministers from Boston took part in the Selma march for voting rights.

Reeb was 38 years old. He left a young widow and four young children.

#CivilRights #BloodySunday #JamesReeb #Selma

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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43273867/republicans-history-forgetting/

Today's Letters from an American
#JimmyLeeJackson
#JamesReeb
#ViolaLiuzzo #Selma #JohnLewis #Votingrights

I fear there will be more deaths in the effort to secure voting rights. These were heroic people who lost life and limb to broaden democracy

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-5-2023-sunday?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email