A chronological mapping of grassroots activism, political resistance, and federal legislative breakthroughs.
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
Ava DuVernay
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