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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.
Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961.
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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 ...
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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]
Viola Fauver Liuzzo (née Gregg; April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was an American civil rights activist in Detroit, Michigan.She was known for going to Alabama in March 1965 to support the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights.