Urban blight in west Selma. "we live like in South Africa" says one resident.
Teresa Hall is a single mother and grandmother. She has three children, on is in jail, one just out of jail and one has a daughter with Down syndrome. She has 9 grand children and 12 people live in her house. She knows no way out of poverty. The sign on the door was bought after they were burgled.
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.
