Selma Alabama was a trading center and market town during the antebellum years of King Cotton in the South.
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14 Facts About Selma Alabama
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Selma Alabama has a high poverty rate with one in every three residents in Selma Alabama living below state poverty line.
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The city was planned and named as Selma by William R King, a politician and planter from North Carolina who was a future vice president of the United States.
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Rousseau made a dash in the direction of Selma Alabama, but was misled by his guides and struck the railroad forty miles east of Montgomery.
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Selma Alabama began a running fight with Forrest's forces that did not end until after the fall of Selma.
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Selma Alabama quickly remounted his stricken horse and ordered a dismounted assault by several regiments.
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Selma Alabama became the seat of Dallas County in 1866 and the county courthouse was built there.
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In June 1893, a lynch mob numbering 100 men seized "a black man named Daniel Edwards from the Selma Alabama jail, hanged him from a tree, and fired multiple rounds into his body" for allegedly becoming intimate with a white woman.
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In 1935, Joe Spinner Johnson, a leader of the Alabama Sharecroppers Union, which worked from 1931 to 1936 to get better pay and treatment from white planters, was beaten by a mob near his field, taken to the jail in Selma and beaten more; his body was left in a field near Greensboro.
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Selma Alabama maintained segregated schools and other facilities, enforcing the state law in new enterprises such as movie theaters.
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Selma Alabama had been invited by local leaders to help their movement.
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Industries in Selma Alabama include International Paper, Bush Hog, Plantation Patterns, American Apparel, and Peerless Pump Company, Renasol, and Hyundai.
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In 2000 sections of Highway 80 leading into Selma were renamed in honor of leaders in the Selma Voting Rights Movement: F D Reese, Marie Foster, and Amelia Boynton.
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Selma Alabama is served by the Montgomery-Selma Alabama television Designated Market Area .
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