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    selma
    [ noun ]
    a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters
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    1. And if I couldn't vote I'd have been an activist probably more extreme than some who came here." And Selma today?
    2. "Be the busiest person in town, doing things for Selma that the people can see and touch.
    3. Roussell has described the evaluation as unfair but opposes the boycott, saying it had less to do with him or the schools than with Selma's history of racial unrest, including the violence used on civil rights marchers in 1965.
    4. Education!" "This is the first time troopers have been used to ensure that whites could go to school," said Jamie Wallace, executive director of the Selma chamber of commerce.
    5. Back then Selma was so rigidly segregated that even the fishing ponds, side by side, were designated "colored" and "white."
    6. It's a question of whether we can get to them." A judge has upheld the re-election of the Selma mayor to a record seventh term, ruling that a black former city councilman failed to provide any evidence the results were tainted.
    7. It fell upon him, then, to preside over what could be called Selma's second Reconstruction.
    8. Camp Selma also accommodated the 3,000 Army regulars, Alabama National Guardsmen and federal marshals sent to protect the ultimate march, the victory march from Selma to Montgomery on March 21-25.
    9. Camp Selma also accommodated the 3,000 Army regulars, Alabama National Guardsmen and federal marshals sent to protect the ultimate march, the victory march from Selma to Montgomery on March 21-25.
    10. Bryant, a pop singer in the 1960s, moved to Nashville from Selma, Ala., in August to get back into the business.
    11. The protest, prompted by the dismissal of the city's first black school superintendent by white school board members, was less strident than in recent days when throngs of black demonstrators rekindled images of historic Selma marches in the 1960s.
    12. Americans by the hundreds, black and white, came to Selma in outrage.
    13. There was no levee to protect low-lying areas in Selma, where caskets rose from the ground in a flooded cemetery and up to 500 people fled their homes Tuesday when the Alabama River rose more than 12 feet above flood stage.
    14. The re-enactment of the historic, 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery ended Saturday with 3,000 people gathered in the shadow of Alabama's Capitol to rekindle the spirit of the civil rights movement.
    15. For 25 years, she and her sister Selma, also a Baylor professor, have hunted examples of what they call "medi-cant" for use in their classes and in seminars around the country.
    16. Four of the nine members of the Selma City Council are black.
    17. Camp Selma was where he imprisoned them.
    18. He referred to the Selma bridge where marchers were clubbed by state troopers in 1965 in what became known as "Bloody Sunday," a milestone in the drive for equal rights.
    19. Many protesters planned to march today from a Selma church to the Edmund Pettus bridge, a landmark in the civil rights movement of 25 years ago, and then spend a second night in the high school and city hall.
    20. Selma schools reopened Aug. 20 after summer break, with blacks now making up about 80 percent of the student body of 6,000. The city of about 27,000 people is roughly half black and half white.
    21. He was a follower of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and participated in the famous 1965 march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery, Ala.
    22. Black protesters, most of them students, took over the school's cafeteria Wednesday as rising racial tensions forced the closing of all 11 public schools in Selma's 6,000-student, 70 percent black system.
    23. "Anyhow, Selma is all I really care about and being mayor of Selma has been sufficient.
    24. "Anyhow, Selma is all I really care about and being mayor of Selma has been sufficient.
    25. Lewis led the hundreds of demonstrators to Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, suffering a bloodied head for his efforts.
    26. In Selma, the Alabama River rose more than 12 feet above flood stage.
    27. "What is happening in Selma threatens education across the nation," said the Rev. Ben Chavis Jr. , executive director of the Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ in Cleveland, Ohio.
    28. But state Sen. Earl Goodwin of Selma said Tuesday his comment was taken out of context when it was broadcast on the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour.
    29. He said the city will seek contempt citations against leaders of protests that began in January over the dismissal of Selma's first black school superintendent.
    30. State Sen. Hank Sanders, a Selma attorney and leader of the protests, said Monday that protesters and City Attorney Henry Pitts were working toward an end to pending litigation.
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