A black man named James Wilson was sentenced to death for stealing $1.95 from a white womanin this state, although Governor "Big Jim" Folsom commuted the sentence.
A black man named James Wilson was sentenced to death for stealing $1.95 from a white womanin this state, although Governor "Big Jim" Folsom commuted the sentence. Fred Shuttlesworth ledCivil Rights campaigns in this state. Standing in front of this state's Capitol building, a man declaredthat "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" in the "How long? Not long"speech. Klansman and (*) Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black hailed from this state. John Lewis andHosea Williams led the first attempt to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in this state, but they were repelledby Sherriff Jim Clark. Addie Mae Collins and three others were killed in a September 1963 bombing in thisstate. For 10 points, name this state, site of a march from Selma to Montgomery.
A black man named James Wilson was sentenced to death for stealing $1.95 from a white womanin this state, although Governor "Big Jim" Folsom commuted the sentence.
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