Faya Rose Sanders Toure, a Harvard-educated attorney and civil rights activist works for one of Selma's oldest established law firms which specializes on civil rights cases.
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.
