Selma

Following initial demonstrations led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, a secret night march was planned by activists in the nearby town of Marion. Lacking King’s apparent insight for media-as-witness and, facing police sent by the office of Alabama Governor George Wallace, the night of February 18, 1965 bore a shocking result for the peaceful protestors. Though the Bloody Sunday of 1965 is the major act of violence in Ava DuVernay’s Selma, this earlier clash in her film ro...