abstract:Selma James (born 15 August 1930), is a co-author of the women's movement classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (with Mariarosa Dalla Costa), co-founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign and coordinator of the Global Women's Strike."Selma James 80 on 15 August this year", Global Women's Strike.
Among those beaten was James Reeb, a Unitarian minister from Boston, who was turned away from the Selma public hospital when seeking treatment for his critical injuries and forced to be taken to a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama where Reeb died two days later.