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Civil rights leader F.D. Reese dies at 88
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2018/04/05/civil-rights-leader-f-d-reese-dies-88/491276002/
SELMA – Civil rights leader F.D. Reese, whose organization invited the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to come to Selma to lead the voting rights movement in Selma, died Thursday after an extended illness.
Reese, 88, passed away around noon at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, surrounded by family members, said grandson Alan Reese.
“He was a great man who was very knowledgeable about civil rights but he was much more than that,” said his grandson. “He’d always tell me to “be a man” and to stand up when it came to making tough decisions in life.”
The soft-spoken Baptist minister was a nationally known civil rights leader, an educator and a successful politician who served several terms on the Selma City Council before losing a bid for mayor.
His name may not have been as famous as other civil rights leaders, but he preferred to stand in the background and help to resolve important issues when they surfaced.
Reese was also a leader of Selma’s “Courageous Eight” group that worked to end unfair voter registration procedures in Selma and Dallas County.
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SELMA – Civil rights leader F.D. Reese, whose organization invited the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to come to Selma to lead the voting rights movement in Selma, died Thursday after an extended illness.
Reese, 88, passed away around noon at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, surrounded by family members, said grandson Alan Reese.
“He was a great man who was very knowledgeable about civil rights but he was much more than that,” said his grandson. “He’d always tell me to “be a man” and to stand up when it came to making tough decisions in life.”
The soft-spoken Baptist minister was a nationally known civil rights leader, an educator and a successful politician who served several terms on the Selma City Council before losing a bid for mayor.
His name may not have been as famous as other civil rights leaders, but he preferred to stand in the background and help to resolve important issues when they surfaced.
Reese was also a leader of Selma’s “Courageous Eight” group that worked to end unfair voter registration procedures in Selma and Dallas County.
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Thank you Rev Reese!
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