Dallas County Courthouse Basement
Alabama Avenue and Summit Street, Selma, AL 36701
The Selma Group meets at 12:30 pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and at 6 pm on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday for open discussion meetings. All meetings are non-smoking.
History:
The archives contains a paper written by the wife of an early Selma Group member. She wrote that a local gambler who had sobered up in A.A. had visited her husband, Glenn, in a local hospital. He said that he had tried to start a local A.A. group here, but it folded. He felt that because of his reputation as a gambler we would hurt any group with which he affiliated, but he did tell Glenn about the Montgomery Group, its meetings and times. Glenn went to Montgomery and, as recalled by his wife, “Charlie met us at the door with a friendly greeting and warm handshake. He saw that we met everyone.”
Glenn and his wife commuted to Montgomery three times a week for five months. Glenn then scheduled a meeting in Selma, It was to be held on August 24, 1949 in the Hospitality Room of the Alabama Gas Company, with Charlie A., Montgomery’s founder, and Hal W. as speakers. However, Glenn missed the meeting since he was in the hospital with a ruptured appendix. Charlie and a large group of Montgomery members went to the hospital and visited Glenn after the meeting.
So it began and so it has continued with people helping people, some being successful from the beginning, others after a slip or two, but everyone having the chance to find sobriety if they really want it.