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Avis Williams transformed Selma, Alabama’s schools during her five years as superintendent. Now, she’s set to lead New Orleans’ all-charter school system.

Avis Williams transformed Selma, Alabama’s schools during her five years as superintendent. Now, she’s set to lead New Orleans’ all-charter school system.

The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail memorializes the route, people, and history of the 1965 march. This is what it’s like the walk the 54-mile trail.

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Strange saga of stolen $500,000 Confederate chair baffles Selma Updated Apr 28, 2021; It’s not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest. How to steal a chair that weighed maybe 500 pounds? Who was the group “White Lies Matter” that appeared to have stolen the chair to make a statement about how we remember the Confederacy? What of the ransom demand that didn’t ask for money, but included threats ...

Strange theft of Confederate chair mystifies Alabama town by Kim Chandler And Rebecca Santana, The Associated Press Posted Apr 28, 2021 12:56 pm EDT Last Updated Apr 28, 2021 at 12:58 pm EDT SELMA, Ala. — It’s not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest. How to steal a chair that weighed maybe 500 pounds (225 kilograms)? Who was the group “White Lies Matter” that appeared to have stolen the chair...

Kim Chandler And Rebecca Santana April 28, 2021 - 9:56 AM SELMA, Ala. - It’s not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest. How to steal a chair that weighed maybe 500 pounds (225 kilograms)? Who was the group “White Lies Matter" that appeared to have stolen the chair to make a statement about how we remember the Confederacy? What of the ransom demand that didnt ask fo...