Darrio Melton is an Alabama State Representative for the 67th precinct. He believes the struggle today is for economic opportunity, and has tabled a bill in the State legislature for a minimum wage.
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.
