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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FC_it-started-in-selma_Hayneville-AL.html
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama. Pre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FB_after-the-march-tent-city_Hayneville-AL.html
Since the federal registrars came in August of 1965, thousands and thousands of Negroes have registered to vote. White plantation owners have retaliated by mass evictions. In December 1965, over forty families either left the county, moved in with…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24F2_no-isolated-incident_Hayneville-AL.html
For African Americans in the 1960s, being kicked off white-owned lands for trying to register to vote no isolated incident. Just as had happened here in Lowndes County, blacks in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Greene County, Alabama, were driven from…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24F1_a-price-paid_Hayneville-AL.html
Threatened by the potential four-to-one advantage of the black vote, whites retaliated by ousting black families from white-owned lands. The African American families who lived here paid dearly to earn their right to vote. Crowded into canvas tent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24EU_you-gotta-move_Hayneville-AL.html
In December 1965, a city of tents appeared on this site. The temporary shelters were homes for evicted black sharecropper families. These farmers worked and lived their lives on white-owned farms in Lowndes County. But when they dared to register …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24ET_day-two_Hayneville-AL.html
Monday, March 22, 1965, on the second day of the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March, protesters passed this site in late afternoon. At that time the four-lane highway in front of you was only two lanes, and for safety reasons the number of ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24EQ_marchers-supporters-hecklers_Hayneville-AL.html
While helicopters buzzed overhead, National Guard soldiers—ordered by President Lyndon Johnson to protect the marchers—lined U.S. Highway 80, alert to the potential of violence by angry whites. Marchers walked mile after tired mile, wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CG1_campsite-2_Hayneville-AL.html
Rosie Steele FarmMarch 22, 1965
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AL1_the-soldier-dead-of-lowndes_Hayneville-AL.html
(front)1861-1865The Soldier Deadof Lowndes(left side)No men died therewith more glory.Yet many died,And there was much glory.(right side)ToDevotion and Valor.(rear)FromHearts Faithfulto Faithful Hearts.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AC4_hayneville_Hayneville-AL.html
Founded in 1820 by settlers from the Edgefield, Abbeville, and Colleton Districts of South Carolina on property purchased from the U.S. Land Office at Cahaba. Officially named Hayneville in 1831 to honor South Carolina Senator Robert Y. Hayne. Hay…
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