The autobiography of Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Reese has finally been published. “Selma’s Self-Sacrifice” is the late civil rights leader’s account of the voting rights movement in Alabama’s Black Belt and the events leading up to Bloody Sunday and the eventual passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Born in Selma in 1929, F.D. Reese was instrumental in bringing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Selma to help lead protests against voter discrimination.