

Selma: Then and Now!
“We still have a long way to go to insure equal rights to vote in America. Old battles have become new again” – Selma Congresswoman Terri Sewell Selma, Alabama is known as the birthplace of the Voting Rights Movement. Perhaps that’s why, Selma has a very complicated and conflicted history; a history of civil war and civil rights. “We are Selma, from the blood-stained fields of the Civil War, to the blood-stained bridge,” said 38-year-old Selma Mayor Darrio Melton, during th