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Selma
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1. selma
a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Selma
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a feminine name
city in SC Ala.: site of a voter registration drive led by Martin Luther King, Jr., & starting point for a civil-rights march to Montgomery, Ala. (1965): pop. 21,000
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Selma
see synonyms of selma A city of south-central Alabama west of Montgomery. A Confederate arsenal during the Civil War, it was the site of a major battle in April 1865. In 1965, a drive to register local voters, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., culminated in a protest march from Selma to Montgomery (March 21-25).
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