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Jan 01, 1927 Wichita, Kansas, United States Died on 11 Mar 1965 (aged 38)
American activist and minister
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About James Reeb
- James Reeb (January 1, 1927 – March 11, 1965) was an American Unitarian Universalist minister, pastor, and activist during the Civil rights movement in Washington, D.C.
- and Boston, Massachusetts.
- While participating in the Selma to Montgomery marches actions in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, he was murdered by white segregationists, dying of head injuries in the hospital two days after being severely beaten. Three men were tried for Reeb's murder, but no one was ever convicted.
- His murder remains officially unsolved.
