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Jackson and his family were not part of the Selma movement, but rather the movement in near by Marion.

Sydney

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Bloody Sunday is has been and will be forever a mourned day

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1965 NCAA Basketball Championship Game   Michigan vs  UCLA

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Haskins was a college coach 4 years prior to the championship

-Big DAddy I

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mlk died

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4 people's lives were lost in the march

-Madison

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MLK was assassinated

-anonymous

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There was a double overtime in the kansas game .

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The name 'Glory' for the movie represents the struggles they had to face.

- Sophia

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Prosthetic ears, cheeks, and nose was added to Jon Voight to make his angular face more rounded like Coach Adolph Rupp

-big daddy c

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MLK later died from assassination

-anonymous

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Ava DuVernay did not have rights to Dr. King's speeches because those rights belong to another Hollywood director. Because of this she had to rewrite King's speeches.

Myah

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martin had more than 1 affair when he was with his wife

leah

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Willy Cager did actually have heart problems.

-anonymous

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Jimmie Lee Jackson did not die in the restaurant, he made his way to the street and died a week later

Hads

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The photo shown at the end of the movie is a photo of the real 1965-66 Texas Western team, rather than of the actors playing those parts in the film.

Myah

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the making of Selma took pains to visually recreate the look and feel of the events made famous in 1965, right down to the casting and costumes worn by the film's versions of historical figures.

-cadey

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The explosion in the opening scene is the infamous 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, which occurred in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963

-Riley

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The girl that MLK had an affair with was Dorothy Cotton, who was one of his top aides at the Southern Leadership Christian Conference. -anonymous

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Selma also is supposed to be used as a black women's rights activist because that is what happened and women were a big part in the motion

-Madison

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Haskins said that he wasn't trying to prove anything by starting the five black players.

-Lily

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Iowa game

The movie shows Texas Western winning the game against Iowa by 1 point on a last second shot, but they actually won by 18 points

DK

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Was indeed called Big Daddy D

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Jo Jo was called for stepping out of bounds. A crucial call leading to Kansas going down in defeat.

-Mason

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Prosthetic ears, cheeks, and nose was added to Jon Voight to make his angular face more rounded like Coach Adolph Rupp.

Collin

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Coach haskins was in his fifth year when he won the NCAA championships not his first like the movie portrays.

Hads

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did the resteraunt scene actually happen? no staged for dramatic purposes

logan

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In the bathroom scene they showed them peeing in the toilet and dunking his head in but some articles say that most of the men peed on him

-cadey

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Jimmie Lee Jackson's death

it was accurate as he was indeed killed in a Cafe, in a later trial the killer tried to claim self defense (the attempt failed thankfully)

FP

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when the guy was getting beat up in the bathroom, some held him down and some pee on him

Leah

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did the blood scene all over the hotel room actually happen? no it was for dramatic purposes

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Texas Western Miners were not the first team with black players to win the NCAA championships. The University of Cincinnati won it all with four black starters.

Blake Warner

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actor Josh Lucas gained 43lbs to play the role of coach don Haskins.

-Riley

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Crowd

The movie shows the crowd waving Confederate flags and singing "Dixie" in the championship game, but this didn't happen

DK

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Willie Cager

The movie makes it seem like Cager missed most of the second half of the season, but he actually played in 27 out of 29 games

DK