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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.
Selima Hill (born 13 October 1945) is a British poet.She has published twenty poetry collections since 1984. Her 1997 collection, Violet, was shortlisted for the most important British poetry awards: the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award.
Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Arabic: سلمى الخضراء الجيوسي; 16 April 1925 [1] – 20 April 2023) was a Palestinian poet, writer, translator and anthologist. She was the founder and director of the Project of Translation from Arabic (PROTA), which aims to provide translation of Arabic literature into English.
The school opened four years later in the Saint Phillips Street Baptist Church of Selma (which later became the First Baptist Church). [5] Charles L. Purce was the president of Selma University from 1886 to 1894. In 1881, the school was incorporated by an act of the legislature under the name of Alabama Baptist Normal and Theological School of ...
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Selma Neubacher Steele (October 21, 1870 – August 28, 1945) was an American educator and writer from Indiana who was the second wife of Hoosier Group artist T. C. Steele. She is best remembered for her efforts to landscape the grounds and establish the gardens at the House of the Singing Winds, the Steele home and studio in Brown County ...
Selma A. Cook became a Muslim in 1988 in her native country of Australia. [2] She migrated to Egypt in 1993. [3]She has written a book about her journey to Islam called The Miracles of My Life, an Islamic poetry book called The Light of Submission, as well as the Miss Moppy [4] series (Islamic stories for children).
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 ...