Selma, Alabama

Selma, United States

Selma, Alabama shares 94 connections with 3623 other places across 17 topics, anchored in civil rights history and its Civil War legacy. Government and history connections make up the bulk of its ties, rooted in events like Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, when marchers departing on U.S. Highway 80 were met with tear gas and billy clubs. Strong clusters of connections run to Mississippi and Atlanta, Georgia, and the city's iron works once ranked as the second most important weapons source for the Confederacy.