Honoring Selma: The irreplaceable American Milestone In the year 1975‚ Americans of all background came together on the bridge of Selma to protest the unjust treatment towards people of color in the United State. 50 years later‚ at the same spot President Obama gave a speech; explaining why Selma should be honored has an American milestone. Even though Selma is not seen as a milestone in America’s history‚ Obama wants to prove otherwise because Selma was a big step forward in the civil right movement
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and the nation had once again witnessed the raw brutalityof Jim Crow This event‚ more than any other‚ pushed forward the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Only eight days later‚ in a joint session of Congress‚ President Johnson condemned the violence in Selma and declared his resolute support for voting rightslegislation. -Force is to violence….injustice -Injustice and Violence in movement. Satyagraha: “We cannot remedy evil by harbouring ill-will against the evil doer” -Martin Luther King Jr
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The movie Selma that was directed by Ava DuVernay was a documentary about the events that lead up to the march in Selma‚ Alabama‚ the march itself‚ the aftermath‚ and the difficulties and emotions that Dr. King faced during the time. This movie focused on the brutality that African Americans faced during this time by emphasizing the march scenes using camera angles‚ editing‚ and sound. It also focused on the interactions between Dr. King and Lyndon B. Johnson‚ which was a very important
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1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. led a campaign to get equal voting rights for African Americans. He went against the face of violent opposition to try and get equal rights for African Americans with nonviolent approaches. He led a march from Selma to Montgomery which concluded in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This was one of the most significant moments for the civil rights movement. This movie tells the story of how the movement that altered history for the better
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people of America‚ which were at that time‚ the African Americans‚ quite nobly took a stand and spoke out against all of the injustice they and their families have endured‚ and I can’t help to greatly admire them for that. Overall‚ the march from Selma to Montgomery was truly an inspiring turning point in history. After watching videos and reading articles about this major event‚ I was immediately met with anger‚ directed towards the past people of America who had so cruelly treated their not only
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(7) However‚ the march did not go all the way to Montgomery‚ but instead to the site of Sunday’s attack to pray for those that had been hurt. (7) The March from Selma to Montgomery had been postponed until adequate protection could be found for the marchers. (7) It was not until March 21‚ 1965 that the March took place protected by the National Guardsmen and some FBI agents. (7) The March was successful and resulted
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Do you think civil disobedience during the SELMA period and civil disobedience during current times are the same? Civil disobedience during the SELMA period was not good‚ people would be attacked and sometimes killed. Civil disobedience now isn’t as bad as the SELMA period‚ our present time civil disobedience is not as bad‚ now people just get arrested and charged with trespassing. Civil disobedience is the refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws or commands of the government. Civil disobedience
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University Research Orientation "We Shall Overcome -- Selma-to-Montgomery March." U.S. National Park Service - Experience Your America. The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks--and three events--that represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody Sunday‚" March 7‚ 1965‚ some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks
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Aubrey Lucy was a black female and went to a white college James Meredith who was armed with a federal court order to sign up for classes at the all-white Mississippi university and wasn’t able to until the Kennedy administration who sent federal state troops an d officials. He graduated in 1963 and began “March against fear”. And he later got a law degree at Colombia University. Mississippi governor Ross Barnett. Barnett‚ like some other Southern politicians‚ had been a moderate who veered to
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mentioning most of the main aspects of the civil rights movement and how effective peaceful protest was. Representation 3E is not complete since it only mentions the march on Selma and has cut most of the civil right movement which is not mentioned. No mention of the voting rights act which was a direct result of the Selma march. This source does not explain the split in civil rights movement and that many condemned the march including the SNCC which left “a string of embittered cities” and tensions
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