An Alabama town's first Black mayor can finally take office — four ... a majority-Black town of 133 people about 40 miles west of Selma. But he was prevented from exercising his duties by ...

"I know that I get to walk the halls of Congress as Alabama's first Black congresswoman because so many ... Myles asks the students what they would do if they could be mayor. "If you could create a ...

It was the culmination of a fifty-mile procession from Selma ... in Alabama's "Black Belt," had seen nineteen lynchings between 1882 and 1913. Violence in the region declined during the first ...