The Civil Rights movement took place beginning from around the 1940’s throughout the 1960’s. Selma is a popular 2014 historical drama film that centers over the Civil Rights movement during the year 1965, focusing on the five day, fifty-four-mile march from Selma to Montgomery led by civil rights activists Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, John Lewis, Hosea Williams, and organizations such as the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) (1). This movie provides viewers with a visual representation of the struggle African Americans underwent when overcoming the voting difficulties in the South and their right to vote. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act which forbade discrimination based on color, creed,
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The most bothersome aspect about the movie Selma is the visual images in addition to facial expressions within the characters that show their passion and frustrations yet no one seemed to do anything about. For example, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled multiple times to the White House in order to share his, and others, frustrations with President Lyndon B. Johnson and Johnson continued to respond to King about how he has other priorities but for him to please be courteous and to wait. King stressed to Johnson how these topics and situations couldn’t be pressed any longer and that drastic changes were needed urgently, people’s lives and well beings were being compromised the longer he just sat around doing nothing. They lost countless lives and many were injured throughout the Civil Rights Movement and the marches from Selma to Montgomery and Johnson was letting their deaths be in vain. Those that passed, die for their cause and if the necessary measurements weren’t being taken soon, more people were going to pass due to Johnson and every bystanders inability and unwillingness to be contributions as well as reinforcements in the fight to social justice and …show more content…
In the United States census for the 1950’s, the population consisted of 151.3 million (exactly 151, 325, 798 people within the forty-eight states) people (3). The distribution by race rate out of those 151.3 million were that the population (on average) was 89.5 percent (134,942,028) whites, 10.0 (15,042,286) percent blacks or African Americans, and 0.5 percent “two or more races” (including Hispanics, Asians, etc.). With further research (4, 5) the population shows that 104,871,798 people were in the north and 46,454,000 people were in the south. The north’s racial demographics of the 1950’s theoretically consist of the following: 93,860,259.2 whites and 10,487,179.8 African Americans which leaves the south with 41,576,330 whites and 4,645,400 blacks or African Americans. That being said, approximately 115,358,978 people (north population and African American population of the south) (disregarding those that did travel down to Selma and cooperate in the march from Selma to Montgomery) just viewed the social injustice unravel in “The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave” and didn’t do anything about
The most bothersome aspect about the movie Selma is the visual images in addition to facial expressions within the characters that show their passion and frustrations yet no one seemed to do anything about. For example, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled multiple times to the White House in order to share his, and others, frustrations with President Lyndon B. Johnson and Johnson continued to respond to King about how he has other priorities but for him to please be courteous and to wait. King stressed to Johnson how these topics and situations couldn’t be pressed any longer and that drastic changes were needed urgently, people’s lives and well beings were being compromised the longer he just sat around doing nothing. They lost countless lives and many were injured throughout the Civil Rights Movement and the marches from Selma to Montgomery and Johnson was letting their deaths be in vain. Those that passed, die for their cause and if the necessary measurements weren’t being taken soon, more people were going to pass due to Johnson and every bystanders inability and unwillingness to be contributions as well as reinforcements in the fight to social justice and …show more content…
In the United States census for the 1950’s, the population consisted of 151.3 million (exactly 151, 325, 798 people within the forty-eight states) people (3). The distribution by race rate out of those 151.3 million were that the population (on average) was 89.5 percent (134,942,028) whites, 10.0 (15,042,286) percent blacks or African Americans, and 0.5 percent “two or more races” (including Hispanics, Asians, etc.). With further research (4, 5) the population shows that 104,871,798 people were in the north and 46,454,000 people were in the south. The north’s racial demographics of the 1950’s theoretically consist of the following: 93,860,259.2 whites and 10,487,179.8 African Americans which leaves the south with 41,576,330 whites and 4,645,400 blacks or African Americans. That being said, approximately 115,358,978 people (north population and African American population of the south) (disregarding those that did travel down to Selma and cooperate in the march from Selma to Montgomery) just viewed the social injustice unravel in “The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave” and didn’t do anything about