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Selma Mayor

NPR
Published September 15, 2000 at 11:00 PM CDT

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Perkins, the first African-American mayor of Selma, Alabama. The defeated mayor, Joe Smitherman, was the man who called out the National Guard on civil rights protesters in 1965.

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