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James Gardner Clark, Jr. (September 17, 1922 – June 4, 2007) [1] was the sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama, United States from 1955 to 1966. He was one of the officials responsible for the violent arrests of civil rights protestors during the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965, and is remembered as a racist whose brutal tactics included using cattle prods against unarmed civil rights ...
Reeves' car broke down in Selma, Alabama, and Willie Johnson Jr., who had a pickup truck, offered to tow their car to Reeves' house. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] Reeves rode in the bed of the truck. [ 6 ] When they arrived at the house, Reeves stuck a shotgun through the cab window and shot Johnson and stole his money. [ 6 ]
It was the first killing of an officer in Selma’s 130-year history, officials said. ... He has been arrested several times by Selma police since 2019. In 2020, he was charged with being a felon ...
Viola Fauver Liuzzo (née Gregg; April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was an American civil rights activist in Detroit, Michigan.She was known for going to Alabama in March 1965 to support the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights.
Selma police and supporters honored Gonzalo Carrasco Jr. with a monument Wednesday, the 1-year anniversary of the day the officer was gunned down in the line of duty. ... Police said they arrested ...
One day after a Selma police officer died while on patrol, here’s what we know, and don’t know, about the fatal shooting.. It began around 11:45 a.m. Tuesday when a resident flagged down the ...
In 1965 she was attacked and arrested by state troopers and sheriff's deputies along with other civil rights demonstrators attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. She was the founder of the Safe House Black History Museum in Greensboro , Alabama, [ 2 ] the location where the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr . was ...
Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, [1] in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west. Located on the banks of the Alabama River, the city has a population of 17,971 as of the 2020 census. [3]