George Sallie, 85, Was clubbed on the Selma bridge by the police while marching for voters rights 50 years ago. He fought for democracy in the Korean war and returned to a country where he could not vote. In 1966 he was voted onto the Selma board of Education.
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.
