Jeremiah Reeves (died March 28, 1958) was a 22-year-old African American, former jazz drummer, executed by the state of Alabama by electrocution for two rapes he allegedly committed in 1952. His actual guilt was frequently questioned (although the United States Supreme Court twice rejected his appeals).
Reeves' execution sparked a massive protest, among whose leaders was Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., as many saw him as a victim of racism and injustice. Reeves claimed that he was forced to sit in the Alabama electric chair Yellow Mama a night before he confessed. He later was put to death in the same chair.