Parks was arrested on the spot and in response, launched the Montgomery bus boycott. The movie Selma, starring David Oyelowo as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is based on a true story about how Dr. King changed American history. Him and two others established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the main goal was to organize and begin the movement. Many people supported, joined and eventually began to march in the many peaceful protests led by Dr. King and other civil rights leaders. The movie depicts President Lyndon B. Johnson as someone who opposed the Civil Rights Movement, but later in the movie, President Johnson begins to agree with the cause after meeting with many civil rights leaders. “There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem,” says President Johnson in Selma after standing behind the movement. He is saying that the United States is one country, there is no such thing as “Black Americans” or “Southern Americans,” but Americans in
Parks was arrested on the spot and in response, launched the Montgomery bus boycott. The movie Selma, starring David Oyelowo as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is based on a true story about how Dr. King changed American history. Him and two others established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the main goal was to organize and begin the movement. Many people supported, joined and eventually began to march in the many peaceful protests led by Dr. King and other civil rights leaders. The movie depicts President Lyndon B. Johnson as someone who opposed the Civil Rights Movement, but later in the movie, President Johnson begins to agree with the cause after meeting with many civil rights leaders. “There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem,” says President Johnson in Selma after standing behind the movement. He is saying that the United States is one country, there is no such thing as “Black Americans” or “Southern Americans,” but Americans in