August 6 is the anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing Black Americans the right to vote —which had been systematically denied by the white power structure in the South since Reconstruction. So I wanted to re-post my analysis of Ava DuVernay's SELMA, which dramatizes point by point how Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. constructed the Selma to Montgomery marches to manipulate Johnson's —and the nation's— stance on voting rights.
SELMA Story Analysis
SELMA Story Analysis
SELMA Story Analysis
August 6 is the anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing Black Americans the right to vote —which had been systematically denied by the white power structure in the South since Reconstruction. So I wanted to re-post my analysis of Ava DuVernay's SELMA, which dramatizes point by point how Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. constructed the Selma to Montgomery marches to manipulate Johnson's —and the nation's— stance on voting rights.