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The Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) was a local organization in Dallas County, Alabama, which contains the city of Selma, that sought to register black voters during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The organization was founded in the 1920s by Charles J. Adams, a postal service employee and civil rights organizer who was also the local representative of the NAACP. After he moved to Detroit, he was replaced by Sam Boynton, the husband of Amelia Boynton.

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  • The Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) was a local organization in Dallas County, Alabama, which contains the city of Selma, that sought to register black voters during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The organization was founded in the 1920s by Charles J. Adams, a postal service employee and civil rights organizer who was also the local representative of the NAACP. After he moved to Detroit, he was replaced by Sam Boynton, the husband of Amelia Boynton. (en)
  • La Dallas County Voters League (désignée par la traduction non officielle « Ligue des voteurs du comté de Dallas » en français), abrégée par son sigle (DCVL) est une association locale du comté de Dallas, Alabama, dont le but était d'inscrire les électeurs afro-américains pendant les années 1950 et 1960. Les autres membres de la DCVL furent Annie Lee Cooper, Louis Lloyd Anderson (pasteur de l'église Tabernacle) et JL Chestnut. Gildersleeve fut aussi président de la ligue. (fr)
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  • The Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) was a local organization in Dallas County, Alabama, which contains the city of Selma, that sought to register black voters during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The organization was founded in the 1920s by Charles J. Adams, a postal service employee and civil rights organizer who was also the local representative of the NAACP. After he moved to Detroit, he was replaced by Sam Boynton, the husband of Amelia Boynton. The DCVL was later revived by an eight-member steering committee, known as the "Courageous Eight,": Amelia Boynton, , , Frederick D. Reese, Rev. John D. Hunter, , , and Marie Foster. These members tried to register black citizens during the late 1950s and early 1960s but their efforts were blocked by state and local officials, the White Citizens' Council, and the Ku Klux Klan. In 1962, Frederick D. Reese was elected president of DCVL. Bernard Lafayette, along with his wife Colia Liddel Lafayette, was sent to Selma by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to campaign for the registration of black voters in the area in February 1963. He met the representatives of the DCVL who impressed him so he recommended the organization to be funded. In July 1963, demonstrations and sit-ins were being coordinated by the SNCC and the DCVL. On October 7, 1963, one of two days during the month when residents were allowed to go to the courthouse to apply to register to vote, the SNCC and the DCVL mobilized more than 300 blacks from Dallas County to line up at the voter registration office in what was called a "Freedom Day". Even when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, legally ending the practice of segregation, they still found difficulty in getting any black voters registered. At the time, only 2.2 percent of African-Americans were registered to vote in Dallas County thanks to the continuous work of the DCVL. In late 1964 they received the help of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led by Martin Luther King Jr. In 1965 the organization worked in collaboration with the SNCC and the SCLC to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches. After SCLC and King launched the 1965 Selma Voting Rights Campaign on January 2, 1965, schoolteacher Frederick Reese, also president of the DCVL, convinced his fellow teachers to join an attempt to register to vote in mass. They made three attempts on January 22 to climb the steps of the county courthouse and were beaten back each time. Since previous attempts to register had been made largely by blue-collar workers and students, this marked the first attempt in Dallas County by local educated blacks to register in large numbers. The first march from Selma to Montgomery was attempted on March 7, 1965. Bloody Sunday was initiated by SCLC member James Bevel, and organized by Bevel, Amelia Boynton, and others. When the marchers crossed the bridge they were attacked by deputies of the county sheriff Jim Clark and Alabama State Troopers, and Amelia Boynton was beaten and left unconscious in the street. The picture of her unconscious figure was widely publicized and helped fuel outrage at the treatment of the marchers. Other members of the DCVL were Annie Lee Cooper, (pastor of Tabernacle Church), and J. L. Chestnut. Gildersleeve was also the president of DCVL. (en)
  • La Dallas County Voters League (désignée par la traduction non officielle « Ligue des voteurs du comté de Dallas » en français), abrégée par son sigle (DCVL) est une association locale du comté de Dallas, Alabama, dont le but était d'inscrire les électeurs afro-américains pendant les années 1950 et 1960. L'organisation est fondée dans les années 1920 par Charles J. Adams, employé du service postal et organisateur des droits civils. Le DCVL est ensuite relancé par un comité directeur de huit membres, connu sous le nom de «Courageous Eight» (les huit courageux): Amelia Boynton, Marie Foster, Ulysses S. Blackmon, James E. Gildersleeve, Frederick D. Reese, Rév. John D. Hunter, Rév. Henry Shannon et Earnest Doyle. Ces membres essayent d'enregistrer des électeurs afro-américains à la fin des années 1950 et au début des années 1960, mais leurs efforts sont bloqués par les autorités nationales et locales, le White Citizens' Council et le Ku Klux Klan. En 1962, Frederick D. Reese est élu président de la DCVL. En février 1963, , est envoyé à Selma par le Comité de coordination non-violent des étudiants (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC) pour faire campagne pour l'inscription des électeurs noirs dans la région. Il y rencontre les représentants de la DCVL qui l’impressionnent aussi recommande-t-il le financement de la ligue. En juillet 1963, des manifestations et des sit-in sont coordonnés par le SNCC et la DCVL. Malgré l'adoption de loi sur les droits civils de 1964 mettant fin légalement à la pratique de la ségrégation, la DCVL continue de rencontrer des difficultés pour les enregistrer les électeurs noirs sur les listes électorales. Cette année-là, seulement 2,2% des Afro-Américains sont inscrits pour voter dans le comté de Dallas en dépit du travail continu de la DCVL. À la fin de 1964, la DCVL reçoit l'aide de la Conférence du Leadership chrétien du Sud (Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SCLC), dirigé par Martin Luther King Jr. En 1965, l'organisation travaille en collaboration avec le SNCC et la SCLC pour organiser les marches de Selma à Montgomery. Après que la SCLC et King lancent la campagne pour les droits de vote de Selma de 1965, le 2 janvier 1965, l'instituteur Frederick Reese, président de la DCVL, convint ses collègues enseignants de se joindre à une tentative d'inscription en masse pour voter. 105 enseignants et leurs étudiants tentent à trois reprises le 22 janvier de gravir les marches du palais de justice du comté et sont repoussés à chaque fois. Étant donné que les précédentes tentatives d'enregistrement avaient été faites en grande partie par des ouvriers et des étudiants, il s'agissait de la première tentative par des Noirs éduqués dans le comté. Les autres membres de la DCVL furent Annie Lee Cooper, Louis Lloyd Anderson (pasteur de l'église Tabernacle) et JL Chestnut. Gildersleeve fut aussi président de la ligue. (fr)
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