Pastor Effell Williams of the Tabernacle of Praise church. He came to Selma in 83 and was threatened to have his house burnt down by white neighbours, called a nigger. He stayed and says there are two Selma's, divided on economic and racial lines.
In March 1965 a Civil Rights march was held, led by Rev. Martin Luther King, from Selma Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery to demand the right to vote. Systematic local police violence against the marchers, forced US president Johnson to send in federal troops to protect the demonstrators right to march and eventually vote.
