Selma
Street scene in Selma, Alabama in 1935. (Library of Congress)
Selma is a city in central Alabama on the Alabama River. The seat of Dallas County, it has a population of 23,755 (1990). Located in the center of a fertile agricultural region, Selma is a marketing center for cotton, livestock, dairy products, and pecans and has light industries.
Selma was settled in 1815. Union forces attacked the city in 1865 because of its Confederate arsenal and naval foundry. In March 1965, during a bitterly resisted drive to register black voters, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a march from Selma to the state capital, Montgomery (see civil rights movement).
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Abraham Lincoln
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From his humble origins in a Kentucky log cabin to his life as a lawyer, husband, father, member of Congress, and President, readers will experience the wit and wisdom of one of America's great leaders. "A balanced, artfully composed portrait." - Publishers Weekly.
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A Ballad of the Civil War
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This moving early chapter book is inspired by a nineteenth-century ballad that the award-winning author learned as a child. In a dramatic story, twin sons of a plantation owner share everything except their different beliefs about slavery. As political tensions rise in the South, the brothers are caught between passion for their causes and their love for each other. Both twins go to war on opposite sides and ultimately have to fight each other.
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