Wayne Vardaman (center) is the Executive Director of the Selma and Dallas County Economic Development Authority. He says the economy has improved and race relations have improved tremendously. Here he is meeting with Alabama businessmen interested in investing in Selma.
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.
