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In 1965, civil rights supporter James Reeb, a white Unitarian minister, was murdered in Selma, Ala. Three men were arrested, tried and acquitted. No one was ever held to account.
More than 50 years later, we return to the city where the attack happened and set out to find the definitive story of who killed Reeb. We reconstruct what happened the night Reeb was beaten and hear the harrowing story of a survivor of the attack. And with a contemporary civil rights activist as our guide, we get to know modern Selma — a place where the city's civil rights history hangs in uncomfortable balance with its Confederate ghosts.
For a visual narrative of NPR's investigation into the murder of James Reeb and its aftermath, visit npr.org/whitelies.
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