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Last week Jimmie Jackson was eulogized by civil rights leaders as another martyr to the cause. At the first of two crowded funeral services, 1,000 Negroes jammed into a church in nearby Selma, site of Martin Luther King's voter-registration drive, and heard King's aide, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, declare: "Jimmie Jackson has taken his rightful place alongside such men as Crispus Attucks [a Negro shot to death by redcoats in the Boston Massacre], Abraham Lincoln, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Brown, Medgar Evers...
Then the coffin was paraded to the drab Zion Methodist Church in Marion, where King offered the dubious consolation: "There is an amazing democracy about death." Cried King: "Farewell, Jimmie! You died that all of us could vote, and we are going to vote." King also pushed his Selma registration drive through its seventh grinding week. In pouring rain, he led 350 Negroes to the courthouse, where Sheriff Jim Clark was, as usual, standing resolutely...
...James J. Reeb, a Boston minister who was attacked by a white gang Tuesday in Selma, Alabama died last night of multiple skull fractures...
...Selma police recently arrested three men on charges of assaulting the three ministers with intent to kill...
Last Sunday Selma, Alabama, Negroes began a 50-mile march to Montgomery to protest voter discrimination. The following report was compiled by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee directly from phone calls and field-radio reports made by SNCC staff members from various locations in Selma...