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	Selma (Alabama) - MSN Encarta
		Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, Alabama, United States, located on the banks of the Alabama River.
		Selma (Alabama), city, seat of Dallas County, central Alabama, on the Alabama River; incorporated 1820.
		In 1965 it was the center of a major fl voter registration drive led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; after encountering violent opposition in the city, King organized a protest march to Montgomery, the state capital.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557494/Selma_(Alabama).html (231 words)

	King Encyclopedia
		One of the last major demonstrations of the southern struggle, the Selma to Montgomery March made the nation aware of a discriminatory voter registration system and led to passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
		In early 1965, King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) selected the city of Selma, Alabama, as the base of a campaign against voter discrimination in the state.
		In honor of Jackson, activists in Selma and Marion planned a march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery on 7 March.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/selma_montgomery.htm (849 words)

	King Encyclopedia
		One of the last major demonstrations of the southern struggle, the Selma to Montgomery March made the nation aware of a discriminatory voter registration system and led to passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
		In early 1965, King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) selected the city of Selma, Alabama, as the base of a campaign against voter discrimination in the state.
		In honor of Jackson, activists in Selma and Marion planned a march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery on 7 March.
	stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/selma_montgomery.htm (849 words)

	Why You Should Visit Selma, Alabama - Associated Content
		Selma, Alabama is one of the South’s most unique cities and has played a major role in the history of this nation.
		Selma began as village on the bluffs of the Alabama River and Native American folklore states that it was the place where Chief Tuskaloosa met Hernando DeSoto during DeSoto’s exploration of the region.
		Selma was the site of Bloody Sunday where Civil Rights protestors were beaten with billy clubs and sprayed with tear gas for attempting to march for voting rights.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/65722/error (655 words)

	Selma - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Selma (Alabama), city, seat of Dallas County, central Alabama, on the Alabama River; incorporated 1820.
		Selma University, private, coeducational institution in Selma, Alabama.
		- city in central Alabama, northwest of Montgomery, on the northern bank of the Alabama River.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Selma.html (68 words)

	The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Selma
		The goal of the demonstrations in Selma, as elsewhere, was to dramatize the existence of injustice and to bring about the presence of justice by methods of nonviolence.
		This unprovoked attack on the streets of an Alabama city cannot be considered an isolated incident in a smooth sea of tolerance and understanding.
		He was murdered by an atmosphere of inhumanity in Alabama that tolerated the vicious murder of Jimmy Lee Jackson in Marion and the brutal beatings of Sunday in Selma.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/publications/autobiography/chp_26.htm (6865 words)

	Selma Alabama Profile and Resource Guide, City or community of Selma, Alabama Facts, Information, Relocation, Real ...
		The population of Selma is approximately 24,155 (2000).
		Selma is positioned 32.41 degrees north of the equator and 87.03 degrees west of the prime meridian.
		Selma location: in central Alabama at the junction of US 80 and state highway 22 west of Montgomery.
	www.usacitiesonline.com /alcountyselma.htm (440 words)

	Concordia College - Selma, Alabama: General Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Concordia College, formerly known as Alabama Lutheran Academy and Junior College, is the direct result of the pioneer Lutheran missionaries in Alabama.
		In 1919 at a conference held in Midway, near Miller's Ferry, a resolution was adopted to petition the Synodical Conference for funds to build a school for the special purpose of training professional church workers.
		Selma, the county seat of Dallas County; is about 50 miles west of Montgomery and has a population of approximately 23,000.
	www.concordiaselma.edu /general.htm (1380 words)

	Selma Shame, Selma Blame: the criminal neglect of Selma, Alabama's historic downtown architecture
		Another was of the Alabama River and the bridge from the landing in front of the Bridgetender's House.
		Selma's is, after all, the largest historic district in the state of Alabama.
		Selma Times-Journal, "Downtown Selma awaits its rebirth", is about the "opportunities" that exist to purchase and rehab some of downtown Selma's dilapidated and rundown buildings.
	www.prairiebluff.com /selma_shame (1133 words)

	Selma University
		Selma University was incorporated in 1881 under its second president who was born a slave.
		Owned and supported by the Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc., SU continues to provide higher education to the fl constituency in the state of Alabama, to the Selma community, and to the Black Belt” region of the state.
		Selma University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to award the Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Bachelor of Arts, and Bachelor of Science degrees.
	www.petersons.com /blackcolleges/profiles/selma.asp?sponsor=1714 (828 words)

	The First Battle of Selma
		The following is a verbatim account of the Battle of Selma, excerpted from the book by John Hardy, "History of Selma", 1879.* The syntax is his and I have added a few locations for positions described.
		The capacities and importance of Selma, in it's relation to the Confederate movement, had been notorious in the North, and too great to be overlooked by the Federal authorities, as early as 1862.
		Here Gen. Wilson was informed by spies from Selma, that it was the intention of Dick Taylor (Commander of Confederate forces) to evacuate the place and make no defense---that Forrest himself advised it, and for a time led Gen. Wilson to believe he would meet with no resistance at Selma.
	scuba-doc.com /Batlsel.htm (2258 words)

	American Experience \| Eyes on the Prize \| The Story of the Movement \| PBS
		Selma -- State troopers quietly turned back a massive right-to-vote march led Tuesday by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had begun the pilgrimage to Alabama's capital in defiance of a federal court ruling and a plea by President [Lyndon] Johnson...
		Falls Church, VA The picture of Alabama State Troopers using clubs, tear gas, and, some say, bull whips on men, women and children was enough to make any decent person feel sick, revolted and furious.
		The Selma to Montgomery march was a public-relations disaster for Alabama governor George Wallace, and his role in opposing protesters was condemned in a doo-wop style song named after him.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/10_march.html (1196 words)

	SOUTHERN PACIFIC
		As in Richmond, the factories were destroyed by Union forces toward the end of the war in April 1865, but a few blocks of downtown’s Water Avenue were spared and now form one of the few intact antebellum business districts left in the South.
		Hundreds of Civil War–era houses line Selma’s streets, marked by blue shields and forming one of the largest collections of historic houses in the country.
		The depot also marks the juncture of Selma’s Civil War history with the more recent battles for civil rights: North along Martin Luther King (formerly Sylvan) Street, markers point out the unchanged sites of key moments in the civil rights movement up to the 1965 March to Montgomery fronted by Dr. King.
	www.roadtripusa.com /routes/southernpacific/alabama/spa_selma.html (302 words)

	Selma to Montgomery marches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Selma to Montgomery marches, which included Bloody Sunday, were three marches that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement.
		They were the culmination of the movement in Selma for voting rights, launched by Amelia Boynton Robinson and her husband, who brought many prominent leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement to Selma, including Martin Luther King Jr.
		On March 9, after the second march, James Reeb, a white Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston who had come for the second march and had agreed to stay, was attacked with a club in front of the Silver Moon Café, a hangout for whites.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches (975 words)

	We Shall Overcome -- Selma-to-Montgomery March
		Then civil rights leaders sought court protection for a third, full-scale march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery.
		Federal District Court Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., weighed the right of mobility against the right to march and ruled in favor of the demonstrators.
		Like other "historic" trails covered in the legislation, the Alabama trail is an original route of national significance in American history.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm (332 words)

	The Selma Campaign of 1865
		The Federals had wisely launched a simultaneous cavalry raid from extreme southeastern Alabama which caused Forrest to delay committing his main forceuntil he could be sure of the real intentions of the invading Northerners.
		Selma was protected by three miles of fortifications which ran in a semi-circle around the city.
		The Selma fortifications were built to be defended by 20,000 men.
	members.aol.com /wwhitby/campaign.html (1440 words)

	Selma and Civil Rights - The March on Selma
		In 1965 the SCLC joined a voting-rights protest march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery, more than 80 km (50 mi) away.
		The goal of the march was to draw national attention to the struggle for fl voting rights in the state.
		Televised scenes of the violence, on a day that came to be known as Bloody Sunday, resulted in an outpouring of support to continue the march (Selma).
	www.africanaonline.com /selma.htm (382 words)

	ADAH: Alabama Moments (Selma-to-Montgomery March--Details)
		Alabama accomplished this reversal with its 1901 Constitution, effectively disfranchising almost all African-American voters in Alabama.
		A struggle by Alabama fls to regain their citizenship and voting rights began in earnest by 1936.
		Almost immediately after the funeral of Jackson plans began to be made to march from Selma to Montgomery to petition for a redress of wrongs by the State of Alabama.
	www.alabamamoments.state.al.us /sec59det.html (817 words)

	StoryCorps Facilitator Weblog » Blog Archive » Selma, Alabama - Where History Meets Hospitality, from the ...
		Selma is a charming city with a long and rich history.
		As we crossed the Alabama River on the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Selma, one of the first things I noticed was the number of small independent businesses lining Broad Street.
		Selma has suffered the same economic hardships as communities throughout the South and across the country, but somehow these businesses have hung on.
	www.storycorps.net /blog/griot-booth/selma-al-where-history-meets-hospitality-from-the-civil-war-to-civil-rights (399 words)

	Selma (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Selma, Alabama became the focus of the civil rights movement as activists worked to register Black voters.
		Reverend King was arrested during one of the marches and his presence in jail attracted additional media attention to Selma.
		At a large memorial service for Lee, a march from Selma to Montgomery was announced that would take place on March 7th.
	www.multied.com /Sixties/Selma.html (416 words)

	Barack Obama \| Change We Can Believe In \|
		What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham also stirred the conscience of the nation.
		He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child.
		There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge.
	www.barackobama.com /2007/03/04/selma_voting_rights_march_comm.php (3679 words)

	Portland State Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies & Planning \| planpdx.org: Marching in Alabama
		Selma, Alabama was a case in point: 15,000 Blacks were eligible to vote, but only 355 were registered, due to official refusals and delays.
		Yet, Selma, Alabama, became a shining moment in the conscience of man. If the worst in American life lurked in its dark streets, the best of American instincts arose passionately from across the nation to overcome it.
		Today I want to tell the city of Selma, (Tell them, Doctor) today I want to say to the state of Alabama, (Yes, sir) today I want to say to the people of America and the nations of the world, that we are not about to turn around.
	www.pdx.edu /usp/alabama_march.html (6978 words)

	CNN.com - US - Clinton and civil rights leaders remember bloody 1965 march in Selma, Alabama - March 5, 2000
		SELMA, Alabama (CNN) -- President Clinton on Sunday marked the 35th anniversary of one of the seminal moments in the U.S. civil rights movement by joining the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
		John Lewis, D-Georgia, who took part in the protest and was beaten unconscious by Alabama state troopers on that historic day, welcomed the president's attendance at the ceremony.
		Mayor Smitherman thinks Selma is in for more change, changes that he may not live to see.
	transcripts.cnn.com /2000/US/03/05/selma.revisited.02 (1020 words)

	Sisters of Selma - Selma
		Black citizens of Dallas County, Alabama beaten and trampled by state troopers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge as they begin their march from Selma to the state capital.
		In the 1950's, almost half the population of Selma was fl, but it was perhaps the state's most inflexibly segregationist city.
		In the four years that separated the municipal elections of 1964 and 1968, the number of registered voters had doubled, but even with a 20 times increase in their own numbers, the fls were less than half the voting population.
	home.earthlink.net /~sistersofselma/sos5.htm (1436 words)

	Selma
		Selma, Alabama became the focus of the civil rights movement as activists worked to register Black voters.
		Reverend King was arrested during one of the marches and his presence in jail attracted additional media attention to Selma.
		At a large memorial service for Lee, a march from Selma to Montgomery was announced that would take place on March 7th.
	www.historycentral.com /Sixties/Selma.html (416 words)

	Selma, Alabama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1820, Selma (meaning "high seat" or "throne") was incorporated.
		During the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, Selma was a focal point for voting rights.
		Selma is referred to in the anti war song Eve of Destruction (song) by P.F. Sloan, a hit in 1965 for Barry McGuire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Selma,_Alabama (2203 words)

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