A beacon for the civil rights movement 50 years ago,the Alabama city’s largely African American population today struggles with joblessness, poverty and drugsTen figures clambered over piles of rubble from the stale cotton warehouse, or picking up bricks. It was a cold day for Selma,Alabama, close to freezing, and as the sun disappeared they gathered to warm their hands over makeshift fires. For 10 hours they removed bricks from piles mixed with wood and metal,chipping each recovered brick free of mortar, and then stacked them. The bricks were handmade in the 1870s, and a foreman was paying them between $10 and $20 in cash for a pile of 500.
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Source: theguardian.com