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Selma   /sˈɛlmə/   Listen
Selma

noun
1.
A town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters.






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"Selma" Quotes from Famous Books



... the bell brought Selma to the door. It was Henrik, who had forgotten his latch key. He hung up his hat, wiped the perspiration from his face, for it was a warm ...
— Added Upon - A Story • Nephi Anderson

... Chattanooga and Decatur in force, and on the occasion of my departure, of which you shall have ample notice, to watch Hood close. I think he will follow me, at least with his cavalry, in which event I want you to push south from Decatur and the head of the Tennessee for Columbus, Miss., and Selma, not absolutely to reach those points, but to divert or pursue according to the state of facts. If, however, Hood turns on you, you must act defensively on the line of the Tennessee. . . . I do not fear that the Southern army will again make a lodgment on the Mississippi. . . . The only hope of ...
— Forty-Six Years in the Army • John M. Schofield

... Selma, Alabama, became my third headquarters, where I boarded with Mrs. Cooke, a lovely woman of the purely southern type, who, before the great conflict, was a millionaire, and was afterward forced for her own support to convert a large mansion into a huge boarding house, which, with its hundred ...
— The World As I Have Found It - Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl • Mary L. Day Arms



Words linked to "Selma" :   Alabama, Heart of Dixie, al, Camellia State, town



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