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Negroes Run for Mayor and Council in Selma Alabama
In Selma Alabama a Negro minister and six other Black candidates run for the city council as voting rights expand. The mayoral race features Rev L L Anderson opposing Mayor Joe Smitherman. Democrats nominate March 5 with a possible April 2 runoff. August 15 election day. Whites still hold a majority but Black voters grow from about 500 to 5,300 since 1962.
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Alabama City
Rex Thomas Selma
Ala
Selma
Martin Luther King Jr
L. L. Anderson
Dallas County Voters League
Frederick D. Reese
Mr. Anderson
League
Reese
Anderson
Pas
Tor
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Joe Smitherman
King
John Day
Smitherman
Will de Mare
Brown's Chapel
P. TW. Lewis
Cite Council
Council
Revi
Charles Left
Greenered Brick Brown's Chapel
Street Baptist Church
Edwin L
Lurleen Wallace
Montgomery