Selma to Montgomery, 1965

Civil rights protesters marching from Selma to Montgomery

In March 1965, the Reverend Dana McLean Greeley (second from left), Unitarian Universalist Association President, joined other American religious leaders in civil rights marches in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma, Alabama. Reverend George McClain is in the second row, far right (with glasses). [Photo: bMS 15033/2 (2)]

The marches, prompted by Martin Luther King, Jr., protested violence against African American and other civil rights activists in Selma.

Birmingham

Days before this photograph was taken, an attack on three Unitarian Universalist ministers in Selma left one of them, James Reeb, dead.