Cyber Assignment for Anne Reeb, post here
Read the assignment first. You are encouraged to bring everything we have read and everything you know, up to this point to any and all conversations. By the way, the name of the recently released on DVD film about the three civil rights volunteers, of whom, James Earl Chaney was one, is called Murder in Mississippi and stars: Blair Underwood, tom Hules, and Jennifer Grey. Don't forget to warch, "Eyes on the Prize," Sunday, 2/10, 12 noon to 2 p.m., on Channel 9.
Make sure you read everything. You are responsible for everything written in this space. I encourage questions. You can ask them in this format. Just click comment. I try to read the blog a few times daily during the week. I have time to read this weekend so I will be sending you comments on your essays submitted via-email. Re-cyber essays, I make general comments. If you want to know something specific, shoot me an email or ask the question at the end of your essay and I will read your paper with your quesition in mind. I don't expect polished essays in this venue. However, students are expected to do their best, which is why, except for the Alice Walker comments, compose away from the blog, then post. Your comments to each other are not read for correctness, rather for analysis. I want to see how well you interpret the text, and what kind of sophisicated analysis you bring to the discussion. I am also interested in how well you read: reading comprehension, as well as, what critical thinking skills you possess and what areas of I need to help students develop. If you know nothing about the culture we are reading about, you have to take the time to do the backgound research necessary to understand what the context is for the reading. I'd also enocurage you to ask questions for clarification.
I don't expect you to know the references mentioned by White or Baldwin. What I expect are questions. Ask questions of your peers in this format. You'd be surprised at the wealth of information housed in our collective consciousness. It's important to know what you don't know. Ignorance is not bliss or the road to academic achievement. It can be the difference between a C and an A.
Read the assignment first. You are encouraged to bring everything we have read and everything you know, up to this point to any and all conversations. By the way, the name of the recently released on DVD film about the three civil rights volunteers, of whom, James Earl Chaney was one, is called Murder in Mississippi and stars: Blair Underwood, tom Hules, and Jennifer Grey. Don't forget to warch, "Eyes on the Prize," Sunday, 2/10, 12 noon to 2 p.m., on Channel 9.
Make sure you read everything. You are responsible for everything written in this space. I encourage questions. You can ask them in this format. Just click comment. I try to read the blog a few times daily during the week. I have time to read this weekend so I will be sending you comments on your essays submitted via-email. Re-cyber essays, I make general comments. If you want to know something specific, shoot me an email or ask the question at the end of your essay and I will read your paper with your quesition in mind. I don't expect polished essays in this venue. However, students are expected to do their best, which is why, except for the Alice Walker comments, compose away from the blog, then post. Your comments to each other are not read for correctness, rather for analysis. I want to see how well you interpret the text, and what kind of sophisicated analysis you bring to the discussion. I am also interested in how well you read: reading comprehension, as well as, what critical thinking skills you possess and what areas of I need to help students develop. If you know nothing about the culture we are reading about, you have to take the time to do the backgound research necessary to understand what the context is for the reading. I'd also enocurage you to ask questions for clarification.
I don't expect you to know the references mentioned by White or Baldwin. What I expect are questions. Ask questions of your peers in this format. You'd be surprised at the wealth of information housed in our collective consciousness. It's important to know what you don't know. Ignorance is not bliss or the road to academic achievement. It can be the difference between a C and an A.
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Dung Le
9-10am
Jan. 6, 2008
Anne Reeb
The Color of Death
The results and difference between the death of James Reed, a white American activist and Jimmy Lee Jackson, a black American activist, Anne Reeb said, (cited in Children of the Martyrs, page 217) “A week before my father died, Jimmy Lee Jackson [a black activist] was killed, but the media didn’t take hold of the lost of his life”.
The death of James Reed had positive effects on the civil rights movement. (Children of the Martyrs, page 217) “When Reeb was murdered during the Selma campaign in 1965, his death ignited a series of events that led to the greatest victory of the civil rights movement.” (Children of the Martyrs, page 222) President Johnson used the dramatic leverage from the event to urge the U.S. Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act, which wept away the barriers Southern whites had erected to prevent blacks from voting since the end of Reconstruction.”
The death of James Reed didn’t have positive effect on the civil rights movement. A black activist was killed but yet he was not recognized, he was overshadowed by another person’s death that was white. (Children of the Martyrs, page 217) “A week before my father died, Jimmy Lee Jackson [a black activist] was killed, but the media didn’t take hold of the lost of his life”. A resident of Selma said, (cited in Children of the Martyrs, page 224)
Racism is perpetual; it’s never-ending and exceeds through death, leaving behind both positive and negative effects.
Deon Johnson
English 1A 8-9am M-R
February 07, 2008
Anne Reeb: Daughter of Reverend James Reeb
Anne Reed: Daughter of Reverned James Reeb written by John Blake, which appears in Children of the Movement, was an essay based on forgiveness and moving on. Anne Reeb is defiantly a woman who has left things in the past and no matter who or what, she’s never letting it control or determine her present or her future.
“My father would not like to say that he was a hero,” Anne states, (pg.217). Anne feels like her father’s was doing what most people were doing; trying to turn injustices into justice, she always felt that the only reason he was glorified is because of his race, a white male.
Anne Reeb “down plays” her feelings a lot, I feel. As stated on page 218, second paragraph, “I ask her how it felt for her to go back to the street corner in Selma [where her father was killed]… ‘There was sadness,’ is her nonchalant response.” I lost my grandfather when I was six, now I’m twenty-one, and I still get choked up walking along the street in New York City; it’s someone I love and I just can’t get over someone like that, or can I image anyone else. I feel she “down plays” her feelings for two reasons; her mother and the fellow families, like the Jacksons.
It’s important to have control over your emotions, but not so much that you start to seem inhuman and/or showing disrespect to your deceased love one. It’s important also, “to learn how to forgive and go on,” as express in the last paragraph on the last page (pg. 225). As much as I feel it’s important to forgive and move on, I feel it’s also important to keep the person name and movement alive, especially if it’s someone as powerful and/or legendary as Reverend James Reeb.
Just to Note
Reading about such great man like, Reverend James Reeb, James earl Chaney, and of course, Martin Luther King Jr. has really made me reevaluate my life. I knew that there were so many great man that made it possible for me to have the left that I have now; I just hope to be half of that to someone, what these three man just gave me; a reason to reach perfection, which means to always do my best and give nothing but my all.
Faraj Fayad
English 1A
9-10am
Anne Reeb
Daughter Of Reverend James Reeb
Reverend James Reeb, a white American and civil
rights movement martyr, was murdered during the Selma Campaign in 1965, leaving behind his wife and four kids. Anne Reeb was one of his kids and was interviewed in the Children Of The Movement about the death of her father and how it effected her.
Anne refuses to call her father a hero, because there were a lot of black activists who died for the same reason he did. But since her father was white man his death was glorified. Anne Quotes, “A week before my father died, Jimmy Lee Jackson (a black activist) was killed, but the media didn’t put that on the front page of every news paper.” Anne’s proffession doesn’t have a lot to do with her father’s, she now runs a circus in Sanfrancisco, and is a professional dancer.
Anne is not to blame for her non elaborate feeling about the murder of her father. She was a five year old when her father died, and remembers her mother telling her that he was hurt badley. She sais, “I actually thought that some day he would return; I thought he was just hurt.” She wasn’t old enough to know why her father died and what events he participated in. But her older brother John Reeb did, he was thirteen years old and cried when he found out his father died. She was just angry she didn’t have a father to play with, like all her friends.
Anne thinks her father’s death was sad but simply doesn’t believe he should of got more attention than other martyrs just because he was white.
Dominique West
English 1A 8-9
February 10, 2008
Sabir
Anne Reeb
Anne Reeb was the daughter of white Civil Rights activist James Reed. He was murdered on a march in Selma. Anne Reeb doesn't let the death of her father hold her back or keep her down. In fact she doesn't respond to his death as many others have. She doesn't blow it out of proportion and make it seem as though everyone should weep about his death. She herself doesn't even do that.
In all fairness, she doesn't believe that her father should have been placed on the high pedestal that everyone seemed to place him on. Just a week prior to her fathers death and black man Jimmy Lee Jackson was murdered (Pg.217) and no one made a big deal about that, he wasn't recognized for being a hero and she didn't feel that her father should have been recognized as one because he himself would have been against that sort of praise.
Anne Reeb isn't a bad woman for not wanting to grieve or recognize her father as many others did. She is in fact a courageous woman who doesn't let that death control her and stop her from continuing on. when asked about her father she says (P.g 225), "I would say he was a good man...he wanted to make a difference in the world. He just didn't want to talk about it. He wanted to be out there doing it."
Anne Reeb
Daughter of Reverend James Reeb
Makda Andargachew
9-10 Eng 1A
Anne Reeb calls her father, Reverend James Reeb, “A good man” rather than a hero. He was born to privilege and had good education. He could have had well lived, especially financially, and peaceful life. However he stayed true to his calling and to his heart. He left his job and took another that paid less. He also moved his family into black neighborhood. “ He wanted to live alongside the people he was helping” [page 220]. Reading about him tells he is a men of action. He believes an action speaking louder than words alone. He died trying to make a change a not just talking about it. How is such a man is not a hero?
I believe since Anne is his daughter, directly or indirectly, there were certain expectation that she would follow in her father’s foot steps. If not that, then to struggle and bring his killers to justice. I believe she resents the expectations; unconsciously she is defending her self for choosing the life she is living. By concentrating the on the wrong that came out of her fathers dead. As she said her self “You can’t rationalize everything as an adult, that’s how I was able to handle it. I didn’t’ personalized it.” [page 225]. To make him be just a good man rather than the murdered hero father makes it easy to make peace with herself for not fighting for him.
However there is undeniable truth to what she says, “a week before my father died, Jimmy Lee Jackson [a black activist] was killed, but the media didn’t take a hold of that lost of his life. They didn’t put that on the front page of every news paper. The president didn’t’ come on the phone called his family.” [page 217] I personally thank her for apologizing to family of Jimmy Lee Jackson. Even thought she has nothing to do with the silence that greeted his death, it’s very warming to his family when some one realizes their pain in anger. It was a human thing to do.
We should acknowledge that Anne knows not a father’s love nor does she remembers him well. She doesn’t feel anger or loss because she didn’t realized that he was dead at the time. While growing up she felt he will come back one day when he is better. When she came to realization of things she has already accepted his absence from her life. She believes her mother’s big enough presence filled her father’s absence. In fact learning that strangers have much love and respect for him, which she felt none may have annoyed her. There fore she chooses to concentrate on the other consequences. This could be her way of filling the hollow with in her.
Aisha Garland
English 1A
9am-10am
Anne Reeb
Daughter of Rev. James Reeb
Anne Reeb was child of the Civil Rights movement. She lost her father Rev. James Reeb at the age of five years old. Rev Reeb was murdered by radicals in Selma, Alabama.With a quick blow to the head that eventually took his ended his life after a few hours. Like most of children who lost their loved ones during this time she grew up longing for that missing piece...her father.
Anne Reeb recalls of her fathers passing how very hurt and confused she was. Anne says " I just remember her (mother) saying that my father had been hurt & that he was in Selma and he had been hurt badly enough so that he wasn't coming home." This lead her to miss the activities that other children with both parents enjoyed. Anne expressed that she was angry at the fact that she missed out on the father/daughter connection. Anne felt robbed of this fatherly love and indeed she was.
Anne Reeb is more reserved about her experience as a child of the "Movement." Anne appears to be modest & not feeling the need for attention. Growing up she always felt her father would have abhorred all the media attention that her was receiving at the time of his death due to the fact that he was white. Their family motto was unity of all and the media attention received should have been dispersed to all activist regardless of color.
Anne Reeb kept that philanthropist spirit left by her father by creating her own form of uplifting people. She spreads her word not by sermons or by protest, through her art she is able to encourage A.I.D.'S awareness and preservation of the environment. While her business mainly targets the cooperate world, her job that she has tirelessly decided to take on would make her father very proud.
Melissa Tinkelenberg
English1A
“Anne Reeb”
The story Anne Reeb: Daughter of Reverend James Reeb has a very similar feel as hearing about Angela Lewis, daughter of James Earl Chaney. Both of these women refuse to hold anger towards the men who murdered their fathers. John Blake, author of Children of the Movement, says Anne Reeb “won’t call her father a hero. She is not on a mission to bring his killers to justice.” (217) Anne Reeb’s father was a white minister for a Unitarian church. The Unitarian Church believed and still believes in humanity and equality of all. Reverend James Reeb was killed while attending an event in Selma to demonstrate for black voting rights. Angela Lewis’s father was a black man who was killed, along with two white men while investigating a church burning in Mississippi.
Anne and Angela both try to carry the same strength and message of love not hate. Angela Lewis said, “For me to live in hate would be to carry on the very thing that took him out of the world.” (216) Anne also works towards moving on. She tries to rationalize with her self to be able to let go of anger. (225) These two women share the desire to forgive which I think shows incredible strength.
Although these two women both share a common goal of acceptance, Angela deals and moves on by thinking that “somehow they will pay-on this life or one to come.” (216) The old faith in Karma is what helps her not to hate. Anne on the other hand rationalizes with herself she said her father’s killers were “shaped by what they learned growing up and where they lived…..That’s how I was able to handle it. I didn’t personalize it.”
Even though these two women have found different motivation to move on, they have both managed to not carry hate. This is a task I don’t think many people would be able to accomplish. For this I commend them.
Rudy Gonzales
8-9am Mon.-Thurs.
Ann Reeb
Measuring A Hero
John Blake author of Children of the Movement included Anne Reeb: Daughter of Reverend James Reeb. She can be paralleled with Angela Lewis for the obvious reason that they were both daughters of fathers who were martyrs in the civil rights movement. After there fathers death they became withdrawn and did not acknowledge their fathers death as everyone else has. Both daughters were not mad at the killers of their fathers’ but rather at the fact that they did not get the chance to have a dad. Moreover, Anne Reeb would not call her father a hero but he truly was.
Reverend James Reeb was a hero to many; he definitely was an exemplary model of a humanist. Coming from an upper class background one would expect Reeb to show superiority; to the contrary, “He volunteered at a Boys’ Club to help Casper’s poorest youth” (219). Reverend Reeb also showed blacks that he wanted to get them better living conditions by moving his family into similar housing (218). The Voting Rights Act was passed shortly post Reeb’s death because of the demonstrations from the thousands that Reeb impacted which gave the South a new political scene (222). Many people would say that Reverend Reeb was a hero not because he was a white man that preached a good message, but because he was a man of action.
Reverend James Reeb was not a hero to his family. They felt cheated that they did not get to keep him longer. His wife had to be both mom and dad and carry the family through (223). His wife turned hard after her husband’s death and you can see she still hurts when she refuses to get out of the car in Selma, where her husband died (224). Anne’s brother John she recalls lost faith in organized religion and remains pissed their father was taken away (223). Anne herself openly admits that she was angry when other kids got to play with their dads (222). The Reeb family took a hard hit when Reverend James Reeb died and although they moved on, the person who showed the most heroic qualities would have been their mother, Mrs. Reeb.
We have all heard that action speaks louder than words and I believe that this is particularly true for Anne Reeb. “Anne says she wasn’t angry at her father’s killers. She was angry she didn’t have a father to play with” (222). For Anne and her family they did not get the chance to have a husband/father in their lives. Therefore, it is hard to call a person that was not there for them a hero. On the other hand, Reverend Reeb has done so much for the black community, poor citizens, and the civil rights movement at large that these people are thankful for his noble deeds.
Hero is a term that is used by the opinions of those who see the heroic qualities in that person. I am sure that a child that loses a parent at such a young age feels robbed of their time with them. I believe the passing of a person that made an impact on so many others is also a loss. Although, we may be angry that someone close is taken from us, we still need to acknowledge the merits and morals that person lived with. If we see their lives as beneficial to so many, I don’t see how we can’t see them as a hero to someone.
Sean Watson
English 1A 9-10
Feb 11 2008
Anne Reeb Response
Upon reading the article “Anne Reeb Daughter of Reverend James Reeb” I came to realize that Anne Reeb herself “detested” the reason for which her father is called a hero. Anne describes her father as a man who subjected his family to the plight of others so that he could truly be a part of the solution. When asked [Pg.225] during the Blake interview what she would call her father Anne replied “I would say he was a good man”.
I agree with Anne Reeb that the only reason our nation made a big deal about the murder of Rev. Reeb is because he was a white man. Out of all the blood spilled in the wake of The Civil Rights Movement, it was the blood of Rev. James Reeb that our Government could not bear to have on their hands. In the article [Pg.217] Anne speaks on the death of a black activist declaring “They didn’t put that on the front page of every newspaper...” Would I be writing this paper right now if Rev Reeb was a black man? I propose to you that I would not!
History has not completely forgotten however, the black Martyrs of The Civil Rights Movement. Attempts have been made to honor men like Jimmy Lee Jackson, and James Earl Chaney and an endless list of men and women who sacrificed so much for the good of others. Monuments, headstones, and other representations that have been constructed to honor these extraordinary people, have been riddled with bullet holes or desecrated in other ways. As of this writing, in 2004, thirty-nine years after Rev. Reeb was murdered the article states [Pg217] “Busts and murals of his image are spread throughout the nation”.
Anne Reeb has dealt with the loss of her father in her own way, as we all do. I agree that Reeb should not be called a hero for how he died. It is how he lived that I believe has earned him the title “hero”. Anne Reeb says of her father [Pg225] “He wanted to make a difference in the world. He just didn’t want to talk about it. He wanted to be out there doing it.” This description of Rev. Reeb along with bravery, courage, and selflessness he displayed in his mission to improve the lives of others truly makes him a hero.
Angelica N. Watson
English 1A 8-9 M-R
February 11, 2008
Anne Reeb Response
"To Young to know"
Anne Reeb was only five years old when her father was murdered. She may only have a small memory of him. At that age she was innocent so she would not have known what her father was doing and the accomplishments he had made during his life. Now that she is older she understands a little more but is still hurt that he didn't make it to see her grow up into the woman she is today.
What Anne Reeb was told when she was a little girl about her fathers death stuck with her the rest of her life. "I just remember her saying that my father had been hurt and that he had been hurt badly enough so that he wasn't coming home.... I actually thought that someday he would return.... I thought he was just hurt." She wouldn't call her father a hero because she just thought he was a goodman. she was only five when he died so she didn't really know what a hero was. She didn't understand that her father did things that most men wouldn't dare to do. When she grew up she owned her own circus. A circus is somthing that you enjoy as a child. She got into the circus as a replacement of her father having fun with her.
Although Anne's father died when she was young she still carried her father with her. She doesen't call her father a hero because he didn't think of himself as a hero. "Her circus has educated people about preserving the environment and HIV awareness. Now it primarily does corporate events." She used her circus for goodthings and thats what her father would do through his ministry. She held on to him by marching down the same street her father did on the day of his murder.
Anne Reeb loved her father, but was angry because he wasnt there. she was angry at all the attention her father got and how the media praised him as a hero but didn't praise Jimmy Lee Jackson. In some ways she ended up being like her father. She use her circus for good of giving a message. She will never be able to forget her father because everytime she looks at a black person she will never be able to forget what her father died for. What Anne didn't understand was goodmen do not risk their lifes, but hero's do.
Mike Dacoron
English 1A
9-10am
Anne Reeb the Daughter of Reverend James reeb, who was murdered in the streets during the Selma Campaign. Who believed that her fathers Death which turned him to a hero because he was white. Due to the fact not a week before his death another civil activist but who was black got murdered but his death was never shown any media importance.
James Reeb Death help the civil rights movement gain special achievements. Such as the voting rights act. But the devastating effects it had on Anne’s family couldn’t not make up for it because Anne always wondered how it felt to have a father to play with and that’s what she missed out on. (pg22) Her big brother at the time who was twelve years old at the time went through many traumatic changes such as his beliefs in terms as of high powers (pg223)
Anne Reeb has already moved on, though the justice for one of her father’s murderer is still out there selling cars to in her old home town. He sells cars to customers with bad credit and most of his customers are black. And had many numerous chances to meet him but her mother would not let him and she thinks it would be dangerous to do so anyways (pg224)
Anne Reeb had a little closure when she got to meet the family of Jimmy Lee Jackson and wanted to apologize for the silence that greeted Jackson’s death. They showed Anne some love. Shirley Robinson, a cousin of Jackson “he was trying to do the same thing jimmy was”. “We don’t have any remorse”. “We understand that at the time, we knew he wasn’t going to get that much publicity being black”. (pg225)
Chris Flagg
English 1A
9-10am
Anna Reeb a forty-two year old operater of a circus and theater group shows her feelings against the glorification of her father's death.
She doesnt like the fact that her father dies and is "universaly mourned because he is white."(pg.217) "My father would not like to say he was a hero, because Jimmie Lee Jackson was a hero. Many other people, who were unnoticed and unaccounted for,gave their lives." (pg.217) This is why Anna Reeb will not join in the canonization of her father.
Although she is against the glorification of her father she was only five when he died. She was to young to completely grasp the pain of his sacrafice."I actualy thought that someday he would return,I thought he was just hurt."(pg.222) she says. how can she complitatley say she is against the glorification when she doesnt grasp what she has lost.
For the pain that Anna Reeb's family had gone through with the loss of her father, she will still not canonize her father cause sh knows thats not what he would want. "He wanted to make a difference in the world. He just didn't want to talk about it. He wanted to be out there doing it."(pg.225)
Christina Thoss
English 1A 9-10A.M.
Anne Reeb
Daughter of Reverend James Reeb
"The Sad Truth"
Anne Reeb is the daughter of a memorable man by the name of Reverend James Reeb. He was one of the most honored martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement. “When Reeb was murdered during the Selma campaign in 1965, his death ignited a series of events that led to the greatest victory of the Civil Rights Movement.” (Pg. 217) Anne however does not refer to her deceased father as a hero nor does she show any anger towards his murderers. She still thought of her father as a good man though.
A week before Reverend Reeb’s death, a black activist by the name of Jimmy Lee Jackson had been killed, but unlike Reeb, Jackson received no form of public recognition for his actions as an activist. Reverend James Reeb seemed to receive so much attention and publicity for his selfless actions after his death solely because he was a white man. Anne Reeb believed that Jimmy Lee Jackson should have been just as recognized as her father was no matter his skin color, she even apologized to the Jackson family for Jimmy not getting the attention he deserved. But they felt no hatred or bitterness towards the Reeb family. “’He was trying to do the same thing Jimmy was,’ Robinson says of Reeb. ‘We don’t have any remorse. We understand that at the time, we knew that he wasn’t going to get much publicity being black.’” (Pg. 225)
The Jackson family didn’t expect much if any attention at all for Jimmy’s right doings and sacrifices, but one thing that did disappoint them was that no one was even put in jail and punished for Jimmy Lee Jackson’s death, which seems like something they should have received at the least. “…when a memorial to Jackson was erected in Marion, Alabama, vandals shot bullet holes into it.” (Pg. 225) Jackson apparently didn’t receive any respect after putting his life on the line to help others when Reebs did the same, but had tons of respect and was greatly honored just because he was white.
Ali Hassan
Professor Sabir
8-9
Who Is The Real Hero?
Anne Reeb, daughter of the Reverend James Reeb, who was a white American Civil Right activist and a hero to many, was murdered in the month of March during the Selma campaign in 1965. He left behind his wife and four kids. Anne who was one of Rev. James children was five years old at the time her father was murdered. Anne Reeb did not understand why her fathers death was so dramatic than other who were killed for the same reason, but their skin color was different, and for that reason it makes other people lives valueless, than the white man. A week before Anne Reeb father was murdered, Jimmy Lee Jackson was killed, but the media did not take hold of his life (217). Anne says. “They did not put that on the front page of every newspaper, the president did not come on the phone and call his family”.
Anne did not feel her father was a hero, but Anne knew the only reason people paid attention to her father’s death is because he was white. Black activist fought and died for the same cause, but no one paid attention to their deaths. That is why Anne personally apologized to the relatives of Jimmy Lee Jackson, she believes it is something her father would have wanted her to do (217). Anne said “My father would not like to say that he was a hero, because Jimmy Lee Jackson was a hero.
Anne was upset about losing her father at a young age because she will not feel the love between a child and a father, and that is what makes her so angry, seeing her friends laugh and play with their fathers, leaves her only wishing her father was still alive, also the fact that she has not got justice for her fathers death. Now as an adult, Anne talked herself out of any anger towards the man who killed her father (225). Anne followed some advice given by Viola, Jimmie Lee Jackson mother. She said “we have to learn how to forgive and go on”, and that is what Anne has done today.
People question what Anne calls her father if not a hero. Anne would say “…He was a good man”, she says. “He wanted to make a difference in the world. He just did not want to talk about it, he wanted to be out their doing it.
Professor Wanda Sabir
Kenton Low, 1A: MTUWR: 8 – 9 AM
Anne Reeb: Daughter of James Reebs
11 February 2008
The story of Anne Reebs and the daughter of James Reebs is a story that tells about her child live and how her farther James died and how [he] James Reeb was murder in cold blood. When the two African American male men came up and just shot her farther. A person and an African American activist were killed the same time as Anne Reebs farther James Reebs.
Anne Reebs talks that she hopes that the two white males will be punished for the crimes that they have committed against her farther. Anne Reebs was asked about her farther death and her response to the question was hurtful and also chafing because of her father’s murder of Reverend James Reeb the farther of Anne Reeb.
Reverend James Reeb was murdered and the new had been passed down to the oldest son John Reeb the son and the daughter was awaken by her mother and she had said to her daddy was murdered and John Reeb was in emotional plain because of their farther had been murdered.
The murder of the father Reverend James Reeb [father] was branded in Anne Reeb’s thirteen year olds brothers mind that their father James Reeb was murdered. The mom had to break the story on how her father/ daddy had died in Selma. James Reeb does not deserve to get murder just because he was white activist in the south.
Yolanda Gil
English 1A 9-10
Anne Reeb
During the Civil Right Movement many people were involved in demonstrations to ask for equal rights for Americans. Unfortunately, people were killed during these demonstrations by irrational men that didn’t believed in individual equality to freedom. Reverend James Reeb was one of the many demonstrators in Selma, Alabama that protested for the voters rights. On March 11 9465.James Reeb died due to an injury he received in the head two days prior to his death. On the essay title “Anne Reeb Daughter of Reverend James Reeb” from the section Children of the Movement on the book “Children of the Martyrs” written by John Blake in which Anne Reeb explains how she feels about her father’s death.
Anne Reeb doesn’t glorify her father as the rest of the nation does. She considers the only reason her father was treated as hero was because he was white; otherwise, he would have never had received a recognition. Many African Americans were killed during demonstrations didn’t received attention. An example was Jimmie Lee Jackson Anne states “They didn’t put that on the front page of every newspaper. The president didn’t come on the phone and call his family” (217). She felt embarrassed with relatives of people that died and didn’t get recognized.
Anne Reeb gets upset because she missed the opportunity to have a father. She was only five years old when he was killed; consequently, the memories she has about her father are vague. She even confesses that she waited for her father’s return. Anne and Angela Lewis share similar feeling in regards to their father’s death. Both of them are not angry of how their father’s die. Moreover they don’t feel anger at their father’s killers as mention by Anne “her father’s killers were shaped by what they learned growing up and where they lived” (225).But they are angry for not having a father figure to count on when need it. Not only did Anne Reeb and Angela Lewis suffer their father’s death but the rest of their family members suffered as well.
James Reeb believed in reaching people by using faith and Anne Reeb uses art for the same purpose. Anne says “People can latch onto it [a message] if it’s creatively presented,” (223).Although, James and Anne use a different form to have positive changes in society. James Reeb’s death wasn’t in vain; the U.S Congress passed the Voting Right Act.
Jerrell Young
Sabir
English 1A 9-10
Anne Reeb: Letting the past be for a better future
Anne Reeb, one of the four children to Reverend James Reeb, was a girl who had to deal with a lot of dramatics due to her relation to her renowned father, who was seen as a hero to many blacks in Selma during the trials and tribulations in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960’s. She portrays more of an open perspective of her fathers death, which was the clubbing to the skull by three white men, and seems to not even consider her father as the hero like many others. A lot of reasons that she has the perspective she has, is probably the fact that she was the fastest out of her family to come to acceptance and not be devastated unlike her brother, who even to this day has a hard time even when just contemplating the idea alone. So the question here is why does she have this kind of persona? And should it be wrong or right to feel this way as the progeny, one of the closest people in her father’s lives to have less compassion than non related people, who see him as the ideal martyr.
Anne Reeb is now a grown woman, who resides in San Francisco, and runs a theater called Earth Circus, which she formed during the 1990’s. She was a graduate from the University of Utah with a degree in modern dance and theater. She is not affected by her father’s death but does get aggravated at times when she the topic of the father is brought up by curious individuals. She likes to tell people that she doesn’t care about what happened and from her attitude, has let things be. Her brother is more devastated by ther father’s death but it would seem that it would be logical since the fact that he was at the age of 13 when he died to whereas Anne, was only at the age of 5. She didn’t quite understand at the time what death was, so it seems that had soften up the blow of devastation.
Anne Reeb hasn’t forgotten her father, but then again has no agony or suffrage towards the criminals responsible. She since states,” Her father’s killers were shaped by what they learned growing up and where they lived.” (p.225). So with that as her alibi, she has no need to dwell upon of continue to have hatred because of how the people came to be. A lot of people would she is dense because her father was brutally murdered and she isn’t going to put in any retribution towards it, but I can completely understand. She really just wants a life of her own and nothing more. She knows her father was one of the big figures during that controversial time but doesn’t want to be in his shadow. She wants to continue her passion with theater and just live her own life. And from seeing that, I can comply to why she feels that way. So in the end, I would say its right for her to feel this way. And it even makes her the better person in the end because she isn’t playing the ceaseless vengeance game.
A woman of Kindness
After reading the story of Anne Reeb I realized how much we have in common. She didn’t have her father growing up and neither did I. I think it takes a strong person to get through life without having a father figure. Quote Angela says she didn’t experience any anger or deep sadness. She couldn’t miss someone she never knew unquote. I can relate to her because when I was younger I didn’t care to hear anything about my father but as I got older I started asking questions like what he looked like or where did he live.
Anne Reeb was a very strong woman. She didn’t hate the men who killed her father. She thought it would be wrong to carry on the thing that took her father out this world. Her father was a special man because of his death it ignited a series of events that led to the greatest victory of the civil rights movement. He was so popular that one Wisconsin church named its congregation after him.
Next, Anne Reeb likes to see everyone treated equal. She wouldn’t participate in the canonization of her father. Quote a week before my father died, Jimmy Lee Jackson (a black activist) was killed, but the media didn’t take hold of that loss of his life unquote. I believe her father was a great man because he gave up a job to take one that paid much less just to live alongside the people he was helping. He was also very spiritual because he kept a copy of a prayer on his desk and I think that’s why he did some of the great things he did for poor neighborhoods.
To sum it up, anne Reeb father kind of remind me of Martin Luther King JR. He was the type to fight violence with non-violence. When the three men walked up to him he tried to walk away but that’s when one of the Selma men hit him with a club. Then two days later he died. In this essay it’s a couple of negative and positive things said about James Reeb but when it’s all said and done I think his a great man that did great things.
Marcus Lee 02/11/08 9-10AM
Nadia Hassan
English 1A
8-9am
Daughter of Reverned James Reeb
Anne Reeb is the daughter of Reverend James Reeb, one of the movement most honored Martyrs. Who was killed by three white men during the Selma campaign in 1965. He walking alongside with two of his friends when three white men were shouting at them "hey you niggers!"(pg221). One of the selma men took a club and hit Reeb behind his left ear which caused him alot of damage. Two days later Reeb died and left behind his wife and four childern.
Anne Reeb didn't drieve over her father death she was only five years old even though she older. she wasn't angry at her father killers, she is just angry at the fact that she didn't have a father to play with. she said "There were alot of my friends who were having actvicties with there dads"(pg222) That's what really hit her she wanted someone to have fun with.
She didn't call her a hero because she thought there were other hero like her father but the didn't get much attention because they were black like Jimmy Lee Jackson who didn't have the president come on the phine and call his family" (pg217) but like her dad who got alot of attention she didn't think so.
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