World & Nation
Redrawn map defies court mandate to create a second district in which Black voters have a chance to influence the election outcome, opponents argue.
Aug. 14, 2023
Politics
Shortly before a heart attack laid him up recently, Mayor Joe Smitherman was ruminating on the formula that has kept him in office for a quarter-century.
Dec. 23, 1990
Joe Smitherman, 75, who was a young, newly elected mayor of Selma, Ala., during the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” confrontation between law enforcement officers and protesters, died Sunday in a Montgomery, Ala., hospital.
Sept. 13, 2005
The way Mayor Joe Smitherman tells it, he and other white leaders got tired of seeing Selma blasted for its segregationist past, tired of television showing the old films of state troopers and sheriff’s deputies assaulting civil rights marchers with clubs and electric cattle prods at the Edmund Pettus Bridge on “Bloody Sunday.”
Aug. 27, 1989
Black and white leaders reached a tentative agreement to give blacks equal representation on Selma’s school board and end eight months of racial strife, the mayor said.
Aug. 28, 1990
Joe Smitherman; 75; Mayor of Selma, Ala., During ‘Bloody Sunday’ Joe Smitherman, 75, who was a young, newly elected mayor of Selma, Ala., during the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” confrontation between law enforcement officers and protesters, died Sunday in a Montgomery, Ala., hospital.
At the local visitor-information center, a fuchsia T-shirt makes an ironic point: In white letters, the shirt lists, from top to bottom, London, Paris, Rome, Selma.
March 3, 1990
Punishment: After 111 years, a growing outcry has led states to switch to lethal injection. Only two still use electrocution.
Aug. 19, 2001
The Rev.
March 3, 1988
A reporter goes back to the Alabama site of ‘Bloody Sunday’ 35 years later and finds that a city once torn apart by racism has been transformed.
March 6, 2000