The world knows the city of Selma, Alabama, as a historic beacon in the struggle for voting rights.
A partially collapsed home stands in Selma, Ala., on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Despite being known worldwide as a beacon of voting rights, the city and surrounding Dallas County had one of the worst voter turnouts in Alabama for the 2020 presidential election, and some are trying to increase voter participation. – Fewer and fewer people are voting in Selma, Alabama. And to many, that is particularly heartbreaking.
in 1965. Downtown will resemble a huge street festival during the event, known as the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee, with thousands of visitors, blaring music and vendors selling food and T-shirts.But the issues in Selma — a onetime Confederate arsenal, located about 50 miles west of Montgomery in Alabama’s old plantation region — defy simple solutions.
“You have a whole lot of people who look at the conditions and don’t see what good it’s going to do for them,” Clarke said. “You know, ‘How is this guy or that guy being in office going to affect me in this little, rotten town here?'” “We have been programmed that our votes do not count, that we have no vote,” said Nunn, who works in the same county courthouse where white, Jim Crow officeholders refused to register Black voters, helping inspire the protests of 1965. “It is that mindset we have to change.”, which is named for a onetime Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader, on March 7, 1965.
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