Selma to Montgomery marches

In the early 1960s the civil rights movement was in full swing. In 1965 the Selma to Montgomery March occurred. Over 25,000 supporters Marched for the voting rights for African Americans in the south. This March resulted in the beginning of change and helped end white supremacy. The march on Selma was a stand for justice and equality for blacks in the act of peaceful protest for the right to vote. Equality are we really equal? As a child growing up in our home my mother and grandmother instill in us “ all men are created equal in the sight of God” many times I've wonder is that really true or is it still a figment of my imagination. On the 21st March 1965 Reverend Martin Luther King a civil rights leader and thousands of others marched…

injustice. Martin made powerful speeches, marches, and boycotts. In 1964, segregation and racism was banned in the USA. On April 4th, 1968, in a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, while giving a speech, he was shot by James Earl Ray. January 5th(Martins’ birthday) is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Major Accomplishments 1: On December 5, 1955, Martin led a boycott against black and white separation on buses because of Rosa Park’s arrest due to not giving up her bus spot. At Montgomery,…

Ava DuVernay’s Selma tells the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Freedom Marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 to secure voting rights for African Americans. Having come out in 2014, Although any historical film is an interpretation of history, this movie accurately depicted what African Americans went through. The first scene introduces Annie Lee Cooper who was denied the right to vote after not being able to name the 67 county judges in Alabama. This was one of the many real…

restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. 2. 1963 October 7th 300 Dallas County blacks line up to register to vote in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama After waiting all day in the hot sun, only a handful of the hundreds in the line were allowed to fill out the voter application, and most of the applications were denied 3. 1964 July 2nd President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law which declared segregation illegal, yet the Jim Crow laws remained in…

muddy fields of Hayneville, Alabama, I stop to look at the sky and wonder what we blacks have been through. The day before we left for the march with Dr. King (Martin Luther King Jr.), I have done a lot of preparations and packed a very small amount of items needed before I left for the march. (I have packed a blanket and purse filled with my special needs) Ma and Pa were worried about my health but I told I’d be just fine. As I walk more into the muddy fields, my legs get very heavy and tired…

Selma is an Oscar nominated movie for Best Picture; the first film directed by a black female director (Ava Du Vernay) in history. The movie is based on the year of 1965 during the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches, it shows the last final stages of the Civil Rights Movement. The sequence chosen for this analysis is the sequence where Dr. King (David Oyelowo) arrives to Selma. At his arrival to the “Black Belt” region of central Alabama Dr. King and his colleges direct themselves to the…

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” (brainyquote.com) This man definitely had a dream, and our job is to live out that dream. He didn’t express this with violence, but with words and speeches. He didn’t want to start a riot, but to have friendship, peace, and equal rights for all people. He led marches, which thousands of people followed and protested with…

March 7, 1965, has been named in history as Bloody Sunday for the tragic and important event in the Civil Rights Movement. On this Sunday in Selma, Alabama, around 525 African Americans gathered at Browns Chapel in order to march for their right to vote. They planned to march from Browns Chapel in Selma to Montgomery which is an at least a fifty mile march. The marchers were trying to go to Montgomery in order to see Governor Wallace. They wanted to tell him that they wanted the right to…

The fight for equal rights is a prevalent today as it was in the time of the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement is an incredible example of how to implement positive change one of their most effective methods was marching, such as the march from Selma. The marchers had to overcome a physical barrier, waiting hostility across the bridge, but this bridge was also symbolic. Crossing over the bridge meant freedom to vote had been won. Now, other groups such as Black Lives Matter, are…

She uses the image of marching to reminding the audience of the various areas of inequality. She uses the recent movie Selma to bridge marching and voting which is the main focus of her article, equalizing voting laws and restrictions. She then cites various examples of how she feels Republicans are restricting would be democratic voters from expressing their voices. After doing this, she drives home her point that in order for MLK’s work to be done more voices in our nation needs to be heard.…