Selma (Ala.)

Title: Selma (Ala.)
Alternate name: Ecor de Bienville (Ala.); High Soapstone Bluff (Ala.); Moores Bluff (Ala.); Piachee (Ala.); Piachi (Ala.)
Description: The county seat of Dallas County, the town's name means 'throne', and was taken from the eighteenth-century poem 'The Songs of Selma'. It is best known as the setting for many pivotal events in the African American civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Has beginning: 1815
Identifier: USGS GNIS ID: 163940
Parent division/institution: Dallas County (Ala.)
Related resource: The official website of Selma, Alabama
Latitude: 32.416389
Longitude: -87.024722
Source: Geographic Names Information System

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