White minister supporting civil rights fatally beaten by whites in Selma 60 years ago this hour (Mar 9 1965)


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(Tuesday, March 9, 1965; approximately 7:30 p.m. CST; during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — The Rev. James Reeb, a white minister from Boston who’d gone to Selma, Alabama, to show support for civil rights marchers, was fatally attacked today by a group of white men and struck on the head (Reeb died two days later on March 11, 1965, at age 38).


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