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…

When the family of F.D. Reese got to Selma the day after an EF-2 tornado struck the city, one of the first things they did was check on the Reese family home– the former longtime residence of the late civil rights leader and his wife, Alline. Fortunately, the white two-story house…