Essay On The Movie Selma

After watching the extraordinary movie “Selma” i have nothing but positive feedback. This movie touched base on how hard and how awful segregation was in Selma, Alabama. The issue that was focused on was on how blacks weren't able to vote because of how limiting the system was. This is a true story, and it really opened my mind on the topic of segregation. It was also focused on MLK Jr. and the courageous movement he led. His movement consisted of non-violent protest and inspirational meetings amongst blacks all over the country.
The movie started off with the Birmingham, Alabama church bombing, which resulted in the murder of 4 innocent young girls, and later on in the film a young black man by the name of Jimmily Jackson was murdered by a state trooper for being in a non-violent protest and he didn't fight back. All these murders happening left and right all out of hate because the of the pigment of someone's skin, because in the sick minds of some people being a shade darker than someone meant that they aren't
His organization did three things, negotiate, demonstrate, resists. In order to see any change they have to raise the white man's consciousness. You may ask “How are they going to achieve this?”, well in order to do so king said “we must be on the front page of every morning newspaper, and on the Tv news every night.” He also said that the government spends thousands of dollars trying to protect people outside of the country, but are incapable of protecting a race on their own U.S. soil. After one of the marches he was in jail and thought to himself, “they are going to ruin me so they can ruin this movement.” I feel that it's awful the mindset of everyone back then, they were trying to destroy a good man who was in fact doing nothing but good in the name of the lord, without the use of