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Sheyann Webb-Christburg (born February 17, 1956) is a civil rights activist known as Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Smallest Freedom Fighter" and co-author of the book Selma, Lord, Selma. As an eight-year-old, Webb took part in the first attempt at the Selma to Montgomery march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, known as Bloody Sunday.
Yella Rottländer's grandfather is Selma's brother, Justus Meyer. She started work at the age of 18 and for the first ten years was a shorthand typist . In 1923, she and Annette Monasch took over the Holland Typing Office (HTO), [ 2 ] a company that provided typing and copy services, as well as being one of the first employment agencies in the ...
Patricia Swift Blalock (May 9, 1914 – September 7, 2011) [1] was an American librarian, social worker, and civil rights activist born in Gadsden, Alabama.. Blalock graduated from the University of Montevallo and studied social work at the University of Chicago.
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 ...
In February 1964, Martin Luther King Jr., Southern Christian Leadership Conference staff, and members of Congress met for strategy sessions to plan the Selma to Montgomery marches in Jackson's Selma, Alabama home. [5] [6] After the first attempted march on March 7, 1965 (known as Bloody Sunday), Assistant U. S. Attorney General John Doar and ...
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Jerusalem is a novel by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, published in two parts in 1901 and 1902.The narrative spans several generations in the 19th century and focuses on several families in Dalarna, Sweden, and a community of Swedish emigrants in Jerusalem.
A book cipher is a cipher in which each word or letter in the plaintext of a message is replaced by some code that locates it in another text, the key. A simple version of such a cipher would use a specific book as the key, and would replace each word of the plaintext by a number that gives the position where that word occurs in that book.