Weeks before Selma's Bloody Sunday in 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. urged residents of Gee's Bend, Alabama to vote.
Now, some 50 years after Dr. King marched in the streets of Alabama, the Retro Report documentary team explores the legacy of the voting rights movement in the small town of Gee’s Bend.
A majority black town with a population of under 1,000 people, residents of Gee's Bend had to use a ferry to travel to nearby Camden in order to register to vote. To prevent black people from crossing over into Camden, the ferry was removed and residents of Gee's Bend were isolated from the rest of the county—including access to hospitals, schools, their jobs, and the voting booth.
Joel Bernstein, produced this week's Retro Report, which looks back at the town of Gee's Bend and how race relations are playing out today.
Check out a video of Retro Report's findings below.