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Selma’s long march, 50 years later

Selma is a reflection, both good and bad, of life in Alabama’s rural Black Belt, where poverty remains entrenched. Selma has both been lifted by and bears the burden of its history. As one of the main cities in this agricultural area, many expect it to forge a renaissance and lead some of the South’s poorest counties back to prosperity while providing a glimmer of hope to an increasingly racially polarized nation.

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Carmen Sisson March 6, 2015 July 15, 2015Published Favorites, Recent Bylines African-American, Alabama, Black Belt, Bloody Sunday, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Rights, racism, Selma, South 0

What Alabama kids take from Obama’s Inauguration, Knox Part 3 of 3

Obama Inauguration

And then, suddenly, it all came together – why they’d needed to be here so much, why they’d endured the arduous trek just to squint at a distant screen. As they reached the foot of the Washington Monument, so starkly white against a perfect blue sky, encircled by American flags, another sight resonated even more deeply: a rainbow of people of every size, race, and age standing together.

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Carmen Sisson January 21, 2009 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Alabama, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Rights, education, inauguration, Obama, politics, Selma 0

The long road to the Obama inauguration, Knox Part 2 of 3

Inauguration

As one of the adults traveling this week from Selma to the nation’s capital with a group from Knox Elementary School, she brings different emotions and motivations than the idealistic young students, all clad in their new winter clothing and visions of a race-free America. For her and many of the other adults, this is a spiritual journey, both an intensely personal moment and a time to celebrate what they and their forebears suffered and accomplished, as well as to see the opportunities facing a new generation.

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Carmen Sisson January 19, 2009 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Alabama, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Rights, education, inauguration, Obama, politics, Selma 3

Knox Elementary goes to Washington for the inauguration, Part 1 of 3

Selma students

Reddick wants the children to see beyond graffiti-strewn walls, beyond limitations, beyond a town where violence is a daily reality. She wants them to witness something people in this racially torn bastion of the civil rights movement never believed was possible. She wants them to see a black man become president of the United States, to hear his voice ring out across the National Mall and know that anything is possible.

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Carmen Sisson January 15, 2009 August 17, 2014Recent Bylines Alabama, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Rights, education, inauguration, Obama, politics, Selma 4
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