NO GREATER LOVE: The James Reeb Story.
by [Reeb, James, 1927-1965] Duncan Howlett
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good minus in turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good minus dust jacket (some dampstaining affectin/turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good minus
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About This Item
New York:: Harper & Row,, (1966). Hardcover first edition -. 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. . 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.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84958
- Title
- NO GREATER LOVE: The James Reeb Story.
- Author
- [Reeb, James, 1927-1965] Duncan Howlett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good minus in turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good minus dust jacket (some dampstaining affectin
- Jacket Condition
- turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good minus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1966)
- Keywords
- selma, alabama, minister, civil rights movement, murder, religion, biography, unitarian,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil Rights / Black Power Movements;
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