SELMA, directed by Ava Marie DuVernay, is a real story of a movement in a period of history’s space and time when the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (David Oyelowo) led marches to demand rights for African American people who were systematically prevented from registering to vote in the South. Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still present and active in certain areas, making it very difficult for blacks to register to vote. The film timelines the loud noised three month period in 1965, from King's tense relationship with President Lyndon Johnson to the battle for voting rights for black Americans, a battle that reached a climax on “Bloody Sunday”, as state
