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The historic St. James Hotel, located overlooking the Alabama River on Water Avenue in downtown Selma, is set to re-open to guests beginning May 1 after being closed to the public for two months ...
Protesters from the original Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, say there is still work ... He was a 17-year-old high school student at the time. EUGENE DANIELS: It didn't matter what age ...
It’s where he met his hero, John Lewis, four years ago when he was just 10 years old. Lewis led the march in 1965 and nearly died after state troopers hit his skull with a billy club.
"Down below we saw a sea of blue – Alabama state troopers ... "It's just sad seeing how Selma is right now," says 16-year-old Joshua Peoples. When the conversation turns to what happened ...
I found relief in the incredible warmth of the community, a crowd of people local to Alabama as well as those who had traveled to Selma in an act of remembrance and solitude. With every small ...
Selma, Alabama, has a population less than 20,000 ... Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler shot and killed the 26-year-old Baptist deacon during a civil rights protest in Marion, Alabama.
One tornado cut a 20-mile path across two rural Alabama communities Thursday ... Video above: Historic Selma devastated by tornado A 5-year-old child riding in a vehicle was killed by a falling ...
“This is Selma, Alabama,” he wrote ... Alabama, and shot 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson, a Black demonstrator trying to protect his mother, who died eight days later.
At least seven people are dead in Alabama after tornadoes struck the state Thursday, destroying homes and causing what Selma’s mayor called “significant damage.” A five-year-old boy was also ...
Then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace ... "It's just sad seeing how Selma is right now," says 16-year-old Joshua Peoples. When the conversation turns to what happened in Selma 60 years ago, several ...