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Born in Selma, Alabama in 1948, she began singing at the age of four. [2] Fikes was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Freedom Singers, [3] and became known as "the Voice of Selma". [4] She was jailed as a teenager in 1963 for her participation in a Selma protest and was also involved in Bloody Sunday in 1965. [5]
In either 1902 or 1903, Lee D. Miller established his funeral home and a livery barn on South Main Avenue in Sioux Falls. In 1923, Miller hired local architectural firm Perkins & McWayne to build a new, larger facility on the property, as Miller had just incorporated two other local funeral homes—Burnside Funeral Home and Joseph Nelson Funeral Home—into his.
The graves of soldiers are to the south of the Confederate Soldier Monument, [6] [7] with cannons pointing north, [8] forever protecting the deceased Confederates. [9] [10] Elodie Todd Dawson, buried nearby, was head of the Ladies Memorial Association (later the United Daughters of the Confederacy) and spearheaded the effort to build the $5,500 Confederate Monument in the cemetery.
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Mourners release balloons at the conclusion of a vigil Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024 on the track of Charles T. Tucker Stadium at Smithfield-Selma High School in Johnston County.
James Reeb marching with Ralph Abernathy and Reverend King Monument for Reeb in Selma, Alabama. As a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Reeb went to Selma to join the Selma to Montgomery marches, a series of protests for African-American voting rights that followed the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion, Ala., by a law enforcement officer.