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Historic Timeline

1950
First Graduating Class of LPNs

First graduating class of LPNs.

School of Licensed Practical Nursing opens, first of its kind, educating men and women of all races.

With the assistance of the local Elks Lodge, a credit union for Blacks (now Selma-Dallas County Community Federal Credit Union) was opened.

1952
Children infront of School St. Elizabeth

The school is now home to a Selma Headstart Program.

New St. Elizabeth's School built.

1957

Good Samaritan Nursing Home opens (formerly Holy Infant Inn).

1961
Father Ziter delivers potatoes to families after the flood.

Father Ziter delivers potatoes to families after the flood.

Selma floods, Edmundites aid hundreds of flood victims with food, shelter and clothing.

1962
Sister walking down the hall at Good Samaritan Hospital with little girl

Good Samaritan Hospital expands to four floors, tallest building in Selma.

1965

Civil Rights March (“Bloody Sunday”). Good Samaritan Hospital wins national acclaim for its treatment of victims of brutality.

On February 7, 1965 Father Crowley published a full-page statement, “The Path to Peace in Selma” in the Selma Times Journal, which attracted national attention.

In March 1965 Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Selma to lead efforts to secure the civil rights of Black Americans and visited Missions Director Father Crowley and Good Samaritan Hospital.