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Reflections of Public Ministry at Harvard Divinity School





Selma to Montgomery, 1965



Civil rights march, 1965

Additional view
  • In March 1965, the Reverend Dana McLean Greeley (third from left), Unitarian Universalist Association President, joined other American religious leaders in civil rights marches in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma, Alabama.

  • The marches, prompted by Martin Luther King, Jr., protested violence against African American and other civil rights activists in Selma.

  • Days before this photograph was taken, an attack on three Unitarian Universalist ministers in Selma left one of them, James Reeb, dead.





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