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Turning 15 on the road to freedom

my story of the 1965 Selma voting rights march
2015
Lynda Blackmon Lowery recounts her experiences as the youngest marcher on the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

The House by the side of the road

the Selma civil rights movement
2011
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.

Because they marched

the people's campaign for voting rights that changed America
2014
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.

Selma, Lord, Selma

1999
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.

Black in Selma

the uncommon life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr.
1990
An oral history of the American civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama from the perspective of an African-American lawyer.

Selma, Lord, Selma

2003
Set in 1965, during the turbulent early days of the right-to-vote movement. The story of a young schoolgirl in Selma, Alabama, who is inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to resist the degradation that her fellow African-Americans are suffering.

Selma's bloody Sunday

2009
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.

Selma and the Voting Rights Act

2008
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.

The march from Selma to Montgomery

African Americans demand the vote
2004
Depicts the repeated efforts of civil rights advocates to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, only to be interrupted by national guardsmen.

Black in Selma

the uncommon life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr.
1991
An oral history of the American civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama from the perspective of an African-American lawyer.

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