It’s MLK Day, so here are some shots I took in Selma a few years ago of the memorial to him at the Brown Chapel AME church there. 
The thing about Selma is that it has always been majority black, but for years it was run by whites who had multiple ways of intimidating black people into silence and disenfranchisement. Which was what the March to Montgomery was all about.
That particular legacy can also be found around the town: In the name of the bridge (Pettus was a Klan leader), and in the Confederate cemetery, where there’s a memorial to Nathan Bedford Forrest, the KKK founder.
Finally, here’s the memorial to Viola Liuzzo at the site of her murder, about a third of the way to Montgomery. It has been vandalized and shot numerous times (note the bullet marks) and is surrounded by by an iron fence now.
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