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Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail

For centuries, Selma was a city where the rules of race were enforced by humiliation and fear. But Selma gave birth to one of the greatest grassroots campaigns in history--the voting rights movement. The Dallas County Voters League was formed in the 1920s by Samuel and Amelia Boynton, local extension agents. The DCVL soon became inactive. The organization was revived in the 1930s with C. J. Adams as its president/NAACP. First Baptist Church was the first church to open its doors to members of DCVL/NAACP as well as to the young activists from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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