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...pulse quickened, as "Freedom Summer" took on a national character. Demonstrations, legislation, burnings, beatings, jailings--it seemed to be everywhere, tearing at the fabric of American society. It was Harlem, then Rochester. Its flesh was the flesh of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Lemuel A. Penn. Freddie Lee Thomas, James Reeb and other fallen civil rights workers. Its soul was the soul of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Terrell County. Georgia, one of many Negro churches burned or bombed to the ground. Its mentality was that of sheriff James Clark and other faceless, mindless segregationist law enforcers singlehandedly determined to "keep...
...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...