India, Aug. 15 -- On March 7, 1965, James Reeb made a choice. That day, a group of black nonviolent demonstrators were brutally beaten up by state troopers near Selma, Alabama, for demanding voting rights that they had been denied hitherto by white supremacist administrations, through various voter suppression tactics including intimidation and violence. One of the activists, Amelia Boynton, had been beaten senseless on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where the rally was dispersed with batons and tear gas.
Nobel Prize-winning, legendary civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out against this act of racist police brutality (which continues to be a problem in the country), thereby giving this incident a national audience. He called...