The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Joint Memorandum of Intern Regarding the Death of James Reeb
Abstract
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Unitarian Universalist Association, and the American Friends Service Committee have each established a James Reeb Memorial Fund. The purpose of these funds are to provide financial assistance to those who are personally involved in the struggle for equal rights. James Reeb was a white civil rights activist who was brutally murdered by white segregationists in Selma, 1965.