1. Selma - Noun
2. Selma - Proper noun
a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters
Source: WordNetAfter extensive training in nonviolent protest, Lewis and the Rev. Hosea Williams led demonstrators on a planned march of more than 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama’s capital, on March 7, 1965. Source: Internet
After months of training in nonviolent protest, demonstrators led by Lewis and the Rev. Hosea Williams began a march of more than 50 miles from Selma to Alabama’s capital in Montgomery. Source: Internet
After the service, Biden and Bloomberg were set to be joined by fellow candidates for the annual march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate when police beat peaceful protesters who were trying to march from Selma to Montgomery. Source: Internet
As armory for the Confederacy, Selma provided most of the South's ammunition. Source: Internet
Another trailblazer is Amelia Boynton Robinson who helped organize 1965 Selma March, was the first Black woman to run for Congress in Alabama. Source: Internet
Astate trooper swings a billy club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Source: Internet