On Sunday March 7, 1965, about six hundred people began a fifty-four mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights and to commemorate the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot three weeks earlier by an state trooper while trying to protect his mother at a civil rights demonstration. On the outskirts of Selma, after they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the marchers, in plain sight of photographers and journalists, were brutally assaulted by heavily armed state troopers and deputies
Recently, Maggie Davies had her own march but this time it was to City Hall. She was upset about the proximity some registered sex offenders lived near schools and took her concerns to Mayor James Perkins Jr.
“I started my campaign about this over two years ago, and it fell on deaf ears until last week,” Davies said.Last week, the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department apprehended a convicted sex offender, Joe Earl “Puddin” Edwards, 52, as he attempted to abduct a 10-year-old from her bus stop on County Road 63 while waiting to go to school. He remained jailed Tuesday on $500,000 bond
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