In the city, the population was spread out, with 27.3% under the age of 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 24.9% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 16.3% who were 65 years of age or older. This department oversees the use and maintenance of all public buildings owned by the City of Selma.

Noncompliance with City Ordinances for Approval of Expenditures 13 . Selma was protected by fortifications that circled much of the city; it was protected on the north and south by the Alabama River. 4001                                             Fax: (919) 965-4637                                                         [email protected], Public Works                               Administrative Assistant           Jacqui Smith                               114 N. Raiford Street                   Selma, NC 27576                         (919) 965-9841, ext. This march represented one of the political and emotional peaks of the modern civil-rights movement. Highway 80, which runs east and west through Selma and the state has reflected this in naming patterns. Cemetery Specialists are responsible for the coordination of interment services with Funeral Directors and are tasked with grave openings and closings. It was established as a Carnegie library in 1904, receiving matching funds for construction.

For every 100 females, there were 78.2 males. The city council members are: Corey D. Bowie, City Council President; Carl Bowline, Ward 1; Susan M. Keith, Ward 2; Miah Tolbert-Jackson, Ward 3; Angela Benjamin, Ward 4; Samuel L. Randolph, Ward 5; Johnnie Leashore, Ward 6; Jannie Thomas, Ward 7; Michael Johnson, Ward 8.    JP McCann Public Services                           Director h�T�� Nearly half of Selma's residents were black, but because of the restrictive electoral laws and practices in place since the turn of the century, only one percent were registered to vote, preventing them from serving on juries or serving in local office. After they passed over the crest of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and left the boundaries of the city, they were confronted by county sheriff's deputies and state troopers, who attacked them using tear gas, horses and billy clubs, and drove them back across the bridge. The city government of Selma consists of a mayor and a nine-member city council, elected from single-member districts. Review of Compliance with Alabama Public Works Law 11 . It was initiated and organized by James Bevel, SCLC's Director of Direct Action, who was directing SCLC's Selma Movement. But that night, white minister James Reeb, who had traveled to the city from Boston, was attacked and killed in Selma by members of the KKK. Males had a median income of $29,769 versus $18,129 for females.

[11], In 1963, under the leadership of Patricia Swift Blalock, the public library of Selma-Dallas County was integrated. The white Democratic state legislature imposed Jim Crow laws of racial segregation in public facilities and other means of white supremacy. Blacks were prevented from registering to vote by means of a literacy test, administered in a subjective way, as well as through economic retaliation organized by the White Citizens' Council in response to civil rights activism, Ku Klux Klan violence and police repression. City of Selma … Cemetery Specialists provide year-round maintenance of Selma Memorial Gardens and Greenwood Cemetery. [10], In early 1963, Bernard Lafayette and Colia Lafayette of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) began organizing in Selma alongside local civil rights leaders Sam, Amelia and Bruce Boynton, Rev. endstream endobj 4350 0 obj <>stream [9] All the members of the city council were elected by at-large voting. Forrest was wounded by a saber-wielding Union captain, whom he shot and killed with his revolver. This injunction temporarily halted civil-rights activity until Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. defied it by speaking to a crowd about the struggle at Brown Chapel AME Church on January 2, 1965. In the 20th century, African-Americans were also lynched for labor-organizing activities. Two days after the first march, on March 9, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. led a symbolic march over the bridge. George Corley Wallace State Community College (Wallace Community College Selma) located at the edge of the city limits near Valley Grande, Alabama.

Public Works Department:   Selma maintained segregated schools and other facilities, enforcing the state law in new enterprises such as movie theaters. endstream endobj 4351 0 obj <>stream They walked approximately 12 miles a day and slept in nearby fields. Anderson of Tabernacle Baptist Church, J.L. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 3.10. The public high school is Selma High School. In June 1893, a lynch mob numbering 100 men seized "a black man named Daniel Edwards from the Selma jail, hanged him from a tree, and fired multiple rounds into his body" for allegedly becoming intimate with a white woman. Wilson's forces captured a Confederate courier, who was found to be carrying dispatches from Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest describing his scattered forces. They escaped in the darkness by swimming across the Alabama River near the mouth of Valley Creek (where the present day Battle of Selma Reenactment is held.). They were 8 feet (2.4 m) to 12 feet (3.7 m) high, 15 feet (4.6 m) thick at the base, with a ditch 4 feet (1.2 m) wide and 5 feet (1.5 m) deep along the front. The median income for a household in the city was $21,261, and the median income for a family was $28,345. Democrats use Selma, Alabama as a political prop and ignore the city’s current struggles. It was covered by national press and television news, reaching many American and international homes.[15]. Over the next weeks, more than 3,000 African-Americans were arrested, and they suffered police violence and economic retaliation. Taylor did so after giving Forrest command of the defense. After the change, five African-American Democrats were elected to the city council, including activist Frederick Douglas Reese, who became a major power in the city; five whites were also elected to the council.[17]. The events at Selma helped increase public support for the cause; later that year the U.S. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, an bill introduced, supported and signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

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The name, meaning "high seat" or "throne",[4] came from the Ossianic poem The Songs of Selma. Seventeen marchers were hospitalized and 50 more were treated for lesser injuries. Located on the banks of the Alabama River, the city has a population of 20,756 as of the 2010 census. �@��W�[z(gW�,�!dI�W�H�&���۷A���O�!I5�+��^ O����5�)ݟ�1yyq8֐;�K���a�\f�mO�L[�e+�1B�(d8��q���Z�F[����7� \��L��AI�?c9��TL���tԘ�۾a͓��uo����[� J�?"

Discretionary Spending 13 . In the darkness, the Federals rounded up hundreds of prisoners, but hundreds more escaped down the Burnsville Road, including generals Forrest, Armstrong, and Roddey. The fighting there was heavy, but by 7 p.m. the superior numbers of Union troops had managed to flank the Southern positions.

Selma was a trading center and market town during the antebellum years of King Cotton in the South.

The population density was 1,479.6 square miles (3,832 km2). [23], As part of its Civil War history, a monument to native Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate General, was installed in Old Live Oak Cemetery. Civil rights tourism has become a new source of business.[22]:146.

Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west. Altogether Wilson had 9,000 troops available for the assault. This strategic concentration of manufacturing capabilities eventually made Selma a target of Union raids into Alabama late in the Civil War.[6]. Hudson Middle School and the School of Discovery. The Federals suffered many casualties (including General Long) but continued their attack.

@� $\'� The Southern artillery had only solid shot on hand, while a short distance away was an arsenal which produced tons of canister, a highly effective anti-personnel ammunition. About 80% of the population is African-American. Reviews (334) 874-2170. Selma To Build Monument Honoring KKK Founder", "Monument to Civil War general, Ku Klux Klan leader triggers controversy", "SelmaDallas County Public Library Main Page", "Selma, 50 years after march, remains a city divided", National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, Institute of Southern Jewish Life, History of Selma, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Selma,_Alabama&oldid=980646853, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox settlement with possible nickname list, Pages using infobox settlement with possible area code list, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from August 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2017, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Selma was featured in the 1999 Disney television movie, This page was last edited on 27 September 2020, at 17:35. Activists planned a larger, more public march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery to publicize their cause.

Later Anglo-Americans called it the Moore's Bluff settlement. The North had learned of the importance of Selma to the Confederate military, and the US military planned to take the city. ]�|�*-�B;'e�T�����2d��k��p�9��`��[MMm�+�ϊ 4��5Mi�Yj��U'I�st�@�%�TfWb7�!�"��"n�`�`�س��M)V��]]��ܼ4��j�4�L�j����1�����GK���~ׅ�5ݸT�r�q�Tt޷�>��:�[:P}�z����«�▶c�c�{�����?���U��J��&~��I�0n���f�nt�:����9��L�a�Xoӄ������٫iqB�C4r��� !�_ 3K� Both Cemeteries are managed by the Cemetery Specialists, who are responsible for Cemetery maintenance and burials.    (919) 965-8726, ext.

Registration increased by November, when Wilson Baker was elected as Dallas County Sheriff to replace the notorious Jim Clark.

[13], In the summer of 1964, a sweeping injunction issued by local judge James Hare barred any gathering of three or more people under sponsorship of SNCC, SCLC or DCVL, or with the involvement of 41 named civil rights leaders. They left Selma heading to Montgomery. After the outer works fell, General Wilson led the 4th U.S. Cavalry Regiment in a mounted charge down the Range Line Road toward the unfinished inner line of works. The city developed its own police force.

The city has eight elementary schools. In August 2012, plans were announced to build a larger monument, more resistant to vandalism, but many African Americans object to it because of his established history as a postwar leader with the KKK and his earlier involvement in the massacre of black Union troops at Fort Pillow. Unallowable Expenditures from Oil and Gas Funds 15 . [6] Planters and other slaveholders struggled with how to deal with freed slaves after the war. Mixed units of Confederate troops had also occupied the Selma railroad depot and the adjoining banks of the railroad bed to make a stand next to the Plantersville Road (present day Broad Street). In 1920 the east-west Highway 80 was designated as part of the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway.

As of the census of 2000, there were 20,512 people, 8,196 households, and 5,343 families living in the city. By then local activists and residents had been joined by hundreds of protesters from across the country, including numerous clergy and nuns.