Husband dies after Civil Rights beating . Birmingham , Alabama ; Mrs James Reeb , wife of a Unitarian Minister from Boston who was severely beaten after the 9th March Civil Rights demonstration in Selma , speaks to newsmen as she left University Hospital here - 10th March . Her husband , father of four young children , died from his injuries yesterday . The Police have arrested four men in connection with the beating of the white Civil Rights demonstrators . 12 March 1965