Selma's Self-Sacrifice
Walters, Kathy M. / Reese, Frederick D.
Frederick D. Reese was born on November 28, 1929, in Selma, Alabama. Reese rose to national prominence as a civil rights leader after Selma's "Bloody Sunday." He later marched with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. from Selma to Montgomery as an advocate for African-American voter registration rights. On March 7, 1965, Reese and more than 600 other activists marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The day would live in infamy as ...