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Selma was a medium-sized town in Dallas County and a successful commercial center. In 1963 a group of community activists formed the "Dallas County Improvement Association" with the goal of having ...
Mar 7, 2015 · By Nick Bryant. BBC News, Washington. Of all the battles of the civil rights era, few have been lodged quite so firmly in the American memory as "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama. On one side of ...
Feb 12, 2024 · Selma Biopic chronicling the three-month period in 1965 which saw Dr Martin Luther King Jr lead a turbulent march from Selma to Montgomery in a bid to secure equal voting rights. Show more
Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, [1] in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west. Located on the banks of the Alabama River, the city has a population of 17,971 as of the 2020 census. [3] About 80% of the population is African-American. Selma was a trading center and market town during the ...
Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, hundreds of people gathered in Selma, Alabama to march to the capital city of Montgomery. They marched to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote — even in the face of a segregationist system that wanted to make it impossible. On the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ...
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The1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march for the constitutional right to vote significantly advanced this nation closer toward its goal of "justice for all." This lesson plan examines the struggle for voting rights, from the early history of the United States to the climactic battle that captured and focused the attention of the world on the "Black Belt" region of Alabama and the town of Selma.
