Selma manages to beautifully articulate a pivotal moment in history – one that is hauntingly ironic in how it echoes our current times and society.
In Selma we look back at the 1965 campaign by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (David Oyelowo) to secure equal voting rights for African-American citizens. That political battle was waged in the deep south, where King organized marches from the town of Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in protest of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s (Tom Wilkinson) hesitation on voting rights legislation.
Looking behind the curtain of history, we learn more about the political obstacles and negotiations King had to navigate in order to realize his agenda – including compromises within his own political, racial, and religious affiliations in order to …
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