Sherry Mitchell, 46, a community worker advocating for a community-wide fight against poverty, guns restrictions for people under 21. She is standing in front of the Selma bridge.
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.