600 Protest at Selma Mayor’s House
About 600 blacks marched to the mayor’s house Saturday and demonstrators continued sit-ins at Selma High School and City Hall to protest alleged police brutality and a black school superintendent’s dismissal.
Protesters had planned to walk from a Selma church to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a landmark in the civil rights movement of 25 years ago, but organizers postponed that walk until today.
The protests have kept all of Selma schools closed since Wednesday. Sit-ins have been held at the high school and City Hall since Thursday.
Police made no arrests Saturday during the march or sit-ins.
The turmoil began when six white members of the school board voted earlier this month against extending the contract of Norward Roussell, the city’s first black superintendent.
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