Poverty in Selma. Much of the city is dilapidated and there are few job opportunities, so many of the youth leave town and the city has an aging population.
In March 1965 a Civil Rights march, led by Rev. Martin Luther King 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.
