Rev. Reeb + 50

     50 years ago today, one of the three people who  who were murdered for their involvement in the Selma to Montgomery March died in a Birmingham Hospital.

    He was one of the ministers who answered Dr. King's call to come to Selma and join the March. He was killed and two fellow ministers were beaten by three white thugs in Selma. Here is an interview with one of the survivors.

King gave the eulogy for Rev. James Reeb:

 ''James Reeb was murdered by the

indifference of every minister of the gospel who has remained silent behind the safe security of stained glass windows."

     There is no telling what influence those words might have had on ministers who had remained silent.