Selma to Montgomery: Pivotal in Civil Rights
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During the weeks of the conflict, King spoke frequently at Brown Chapel, where he gave sermons and eulogized two men killed in the protests: the Reverend James Reeb, who had died after being savagely beaten after one rally and Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot by a state trooper while trying to defend his family from attack.
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