selma

Shares the story of the youngest person to complete the Selma to Montgomery March, describing her frequent imprisonments for her participation in nonviolent demonstrations and how she felt about her involvement in Civil Rights events.

Lynda Blackmon Lowery recounts her experiences as the youngest marcher on the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson became part of history when she created a haven for civil rights leaders in her home in Selma, Alabama. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his lieutenants, needed a place to plan and re-group as they mapped out their strategy for civil rights. Richie Jean was happy to give them her home.

Presents an account of the 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, an event that sparked the signing of the Voting Rights Act.

Sheyann, an eleven-year-old Alabama schoolgirl, is inspired by a speech of Martin Luther King, Jr. and becomes a devout follower in the Civil rights movement.

An oral history of the American civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama from the perspective of an African-American lawyer.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text profile the events surrounding the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, in which, based on the rights granted by the seventeenth amendment, African-Americans demanded their right to vote.

Provides an account of the events of 1965 when civil rights activists, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., gathered in Selma, Alabama, to protest practices designed to keep African-Americans from being able to vote, and discusses how the televised violence against the activists caused widespread outrage that spurred the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Depicts the repeated efforts of civil rights advocates to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, only to be interrupted by national guardsmen.

An oral history of the American civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama from the perspective of an African-American lawyer.