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Dawson was considered a leading citizen of Selma who raised money for Selma's Charity Hospital and Dallas Academy. He was a church leader at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where his funeral was held. [13] [16] In 2015, the Elodie Todd Dawson sculpture was named one of Alabama's "most photographed cemetery monuments". [16]
Ann Bedsole – member of both houses of the Alabama State Legislature 1979–1995 from Mobile, born in 1930 in Selma [37] Jo Bonner – U.S Representative from 2003 to 2013 [38] Janice Bowling – member of the Tennessee Senate [39] Jim Clark – Selma sheriff during the 1965 Voting Rights campaign [40]
James Gardner Clark, Jr. (September 17, 1922 – June 4, 2007) [1] was the sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama, United States from 1955 to 1966. He was one of the officials responsible for the violent arrests of civil rights protestors during the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965, and is remembered as a racist whose brutal tactics included using cattle prods against unarmed civil rights ...
Funeral services for Selma Police Officer Gonzalo Carrasco Jr. will be in downtown Fresno. The services will be 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at the Fresno Convention Center. It will be open to the ...
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The Marcus Meyer Skinner House, also known as the Howorth House, is a historic house in Selma, Alabama, United States. The large two-story Tudor Revival-style house was built in 1928 for Marcus Meyer Skinner, a renowned surgeon and native of nearby Furman. It was designed by one of Alabama's leading architects of the day, Frank Lockwood. [2]
Annie Lee Wilkerson Cooper was born on June 2, 1910, as Annie Lee Wilkerson in Selma, Alabama as one of ten children of Lucy Jones and Charles Wilkerson Sr. When Cooper was in the seventh grade, she dropped out of school and moved to Kentucky to live with one of her older sisters, but later obtained a high school diploma. [5]
The paper then merged with the Selma Argus (becoming the Times-Argus), and then with the Selma Evening Mail (becoming the Selma Times). In 1889, the paper changed its name to the Morning Times. [1] In 1914, Frazier Titus Raiford purchased the Selma Times, and on March 1, 1920, the paper merged with the Selma Journal to become the Selma Times ...