Annie-Pearl Avery, 71, was a young civil rights activist who was brutally beaten and arrested for trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge which crosses the Alabama river in Selma and march to Montgomery. Originally from Birmingham Alabama, she now lives in Selma.
In March 1965 a Civil Rights march was held, 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.
