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Blind Dates with the Selma Newspapers
Recently, while looking for any coverage of George F. Plant, a businessman and Selma politician (serving as a councilman and mayor,), I saw some cryptic strings of letters and numbers at the bottom of most of the advertisements. Puzzled, I… Continue reading
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Visiting Albert in Montgomery
Recently the Alabama Department of Archives and History shared the news on the Selma Alabama History facebook group that they’d cataloged and stored a large collection of materials relating to the Hotel Albert. Now, I have a minor obsession with… Continue reading
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Selma in 1966
The beautiful Pollard building is in the process of being taken down for a parking lot because “Selma is on the move”. The Hotel Albert is two years from that same ignominious fate. Video stretches from the Edmund W. Pettus… Continue reading
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