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Mar 7, 2015 · Published March 7, 2015. The images are iconic: the horses, the tear gas, the billy clubs and bloodied bodies. It was March 7, 1965, when ordinary, working-class citizens were brutally attacked on ...
The President was referring to the “Bloody Sunday” confrontation in Selma, Ala., on March 7, when Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark and his deputies met about 600 peaceful marchers on the Edmund ...
This home movie taken by Ray Jeoffroy of Amarillo captures scenes of civil rights demonstrators launching a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in March 1965. The marches were a part of the Selma Voting Rights Campaign, a movement that sought to combat racial inequality and the obstruction of voting registration for African Americans. Attracting thousands of participants, not to mention ...
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SELMA is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ...
- Martin Luther King Jr.: David Oyelowo
- Coretta Scott King: Carmen Ejogo
- Jimmie Lee Jackson: Keith Stanfield
- James Bevel: Common
- Diane Nash: Tessa Thompson
- Annie Lee Cooper: Oprah Winfrey
- James Orange: Omar Dorsey
- Ralph Abernathy: Colman Domingo
- C.T. Vivian: Corey Reynolds
- Andrew Young: André Holland
Oyelowo joins a stellar list of actors who have played the iconic civil rights leader, including James Earl Jones, Jeffrey Wright, LeVar Burton and Paul Winfield. Oyelowo’s Golden Globe nomination for best actor puts him right in the middle of the Oscar conversation.
In what has to be an incredibly rare feat, Ejogo plays Scott King for the second time in her blossoming career. Ejogo—who, like her co-star Oyelowo, was born in the United Kingdom—played Scott King in HBO’s 2011 miniseries Boycott, which centered on the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, 10 years before the events in Selma. “I can’t think of many actors ...
It was Jackson’s death at the hands of a state trooper that provided the catalyst for the Selma-to-Montgomery march. On the night of Feb. 18, 1965, Jackson—along with his mother and grandfather—was part of a peaceful protest in Marion, Ala., that had been organized over the arrest of civil rights worker James Orange. When state troopers began beati...
Bevel was a leader in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the architect of the 1963 Children’s Crusadein Birmingham, Ala.—a key moment in civil rights history that gave the world those iconic images of children being hosed down and attacked by police dogs. After four little girls were killed in the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street B...
Nash, who met her future husband, James Bevel, while leading the sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters in Nashville, Tenn., was one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Nash, who was as outspoken and passionate as her then-husband, would carve out an essential role in the male-dominated civil rights movement. Thompson r...
Cooper became famous simply for trying to register to vote. The Dallas County, Ala., Courthouse was often the scene of confrontations between the bigoted Sheriff James G. Clark and African Americans attempting to register to vote. When Clark pushed Cooper in the back of her neck with a billy club, the stout 54-year-old woman spun around and clocked...
Orange, a Birmingham native, was project coordinator for the SCLC, whose primary role was recruiting young people into the movement. Orange’s arrest in February 1965 for disorderly conduct and contributing to the delinquency of minors—he had used students as part of the voter-registration drives in Alabama—was the event that prompted the protest th...
Abernathywas a minister and one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s closest friends and was often side by side with King during key moments in the civil rights movement, including the Selma marches. They often shared jail cells and hotel rooms, including Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., where King was assassinated. Domingo played White Hou...
Vivian was a minister and close friend of MLK. As a member of the SCLC, he helped organize voter-registration drives at the Dallas County Courthouse in Alabama, which often turned confrontational with police. Footagecaptures Vivian at the courthouse facing down Sheriff James Clark and his deputies as he proclaimed, “We’re willing to be beaten for d...
Youngwas the executive director of the SCLC and a close aide to Martin Luther King Jr. He was also a strategist and negotiator during the Selma movement. He later went on to become the mayor of Atlanta and an ambassador to the United Nations. Holland recently had a breakout role in the Steven Soderbergh-created Showtime series The Knick.
Selma premiered at the American Film Institute Festival on November 11, 2014, began a limited US release on December 25, and expanded into wide theatrical release on January 9, 2015, two months before the 50th anniversary of the march. The film was re-released on March 20, 2015 in honor of the 50th anniversary of the historical march.
Nov 7, 2014 · Bloody Sunday, which took place March 7, 1965, refers to the attack on 600 civil rights activists who were attempting to march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.
