Bloody Sunday. In this March 7, 1965, file photo, a state trooper swings a billy club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala. Lewis sustained a fractured skull. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/File). Photo: bswise. (CC BY 2.0).
Bloody Sunday. In this March 7, 1965, file photo, a state trooper swings a billy club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala. Lewis sustained a fractured skull. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/File). Photo: bswise. (CC BY 2.0). Source: flickr.com.

Den amerikanske prisbelønnede film “Selma” fra 2014 har dansk premiere torsdag 26. maj 2015. Filmen foregår i den lille amerikanske by Selma i Alabama i 1965, hvor en gruppe sorte aktivister, anført af baptistpræsten Martin Luther King jr., aktionerer for sorte vælgeres valgret, kulminerende med den 80 km. lange march fra Selma til delstatens hovedstad Montgomery. Se data (og biografer) om filmen på Scope.dk.

Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Marching for civil rights, 1965. Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. Photo by Peter Pettus, Library of Congress, GPA Photo Archive. (CC BY-NC 2.0).
Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Marching for civil rights, 1965. Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. Photo by Peter Pettus, Library of Congress, GPA Photo Archive. (CC BY-NC 2.0). Source: flickr.com.

Anmeldelser mv. / Reviews of the movie etc.:

  • Selma (film) (Wikipedia.org).
  • Review by Michelle Adhemar (Socialist Review, Issue 399, February 2015). “Selma manages beautifully to articulate a struggle of historic importance.”
  • They wouldn’t let nobody turn them around (SocialistWorker.org, January 15, 2015). “Marlene Martin tells the story of a landmark struggle of the civil rights movement that has been brought to life in a new and justly celebrated movie.”
  • The historical and political issues in Selma. By Fred Mazelis and Tom Mackaman (World Socialist Web Site, 20 January 2015). “The 50th anniversary of the historic 1965 march from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery takes place in March of this year. The Selma struggle played a key role in the passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year.”

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King and Lewis on the March from Selma to Montgomery (AL) March 21, 1965. Photo: Ron Cogswell. (CC BY 2.0). Source: flickr.com.

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