Reeb James (3 results)

Condition: Very Good. Soft cover; Very Good; No Dust Jacket; 343 Unmarked Pages, Laid In Letter Signed From The Editor James Kirk To Morton Schussheim Presenting Him A Copy Of The Book Signed Jim June 22, 1973. Paper Clip Mark On Endboard And Ffep.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Likely First Edition, 1965. Tightly bound in internally stapled wraps with pictorial cover. Very Good only with moderate rubbing and edgewear to the covers. The contents include numerous B/W photographs of civil rights protesters and law enforcement.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. "The Spiritual Odyssey that Ended in an Act of Violence in the Streets of Selma, Alabama and Galvanized the Conscience of a Nation." James Reeb was a white minister, working for social justice in the Roxbury ghetto of Boston, when he went to Selma, Alabama in response to Martin Luther King's call for clergy of all denominations to make a stand for civil rights. Two days later, leaving a restaurant with two fellow Unitarian ministers, he was brutally murdered. The author of this biography based it on his extensive research and interviews with those who knew Reeb, and also his own personal experience of working with Reeb in the 5 years before his death. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 242 pp. Very good minus in turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good minus dust jacket (some dampstaining affecting the margins of the endpapers and a few pages, some bleeding from the cloth to the interior of the dj) Despite the flaws this is a decent copy of an uncommon book.