Word: reeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other stops, wreaths were laid at the spots where Mrs. Viola Liuzzo and the Rev. James Reeb died. In Montgomery, Abernathy wanted to place a wreath on the bier of Alabama's late Governor Lurleen Wallace, but shied away in fear of provoking an incident. Instead, he sent Husband George a telegram that read: "I have just received the shocking news of the passing of your wife. Please know that we share your grief and sorrow, and our prayers are with you and your children...
...what can be proved factually. In line with his formula, he suggests that faith should start not with speculations about God but with the "relevant data" that man can establish about his own existence. Citing the examples of such diverse figures as Christ, Socrates and Unitarian Minister James Reeb, who was bludgeoned to death at Selma in 1965, Pike argues that man can transcend his "occupation of a limited space-time continuum" by his impact on others. In other words, the existence of heroism and sanctity is evidence that there is a transcendent quality to man's being that...
...together and that there is "a unus -- not a unum--, a unifying, constellating reality, a transcendence which bears all interpersonal experience." He said there is a style of life that verifies itself -- a free, other directed existence epitomized in the lives of such people as Jesus Christ and Jim Reeb, a civil rights worker murdered in Selma, Alabama...
Knights & Shotguns. Armed and encouraged by the court's rulings, the Justice Department could conceivably move to prosecute under federal law other rights murder cases, such as the sidewalk slaying of the Rev. James Reeb in Selma, the Birmingham church bombing in which four Negro girls died and the killing of Seminarian Jonathan Daniels in Hayneville, Ala. Indeed, FBI agents last week wound up an intense 76-day investigation in Mississippi with the arrest of 14 White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who were indicted under Section 241 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in connection with...
...charges are based on Davis' civil rights record. While almost every other minister and priest in Washington was encouraging the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, Davis denounced it because "our way of life is threatened" by demonstrations that challenge rule by law. After Unitarian Minister James Reeb was killed in Selma, Davis declared that those who organized the demonstrations there shared in the guilt for his death. Davis was one of the few prominent Washington clergymen who refused to sign a pledge to open membership of their churches to anyone regardless of race. National City is only nominally...