SELMA (DVD)Directed by Ava DuVernay (“13th, “When They See Us”, “The Red Line”), Selma covers the work and trails of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., including the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, his work with Lyndon Johnson towards the Civil Rights Act, the FBI wiretapping, the marches and protests over school desegregation, and the “March” from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in support of voting rights for Black Americans. The film also features King’s fellow civil rights leaders, Andrew Young, and the late U.S. Congressman, John Lewis.
*This is a DVD available through the TUC Library.*