Confederate flag flies next to statue of Confederate soldier in the Live Oak Cemetery. For many the flag is a symbol of racial hatred, for others a symbol of a lost cultural past.
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.
