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Why?
African American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America.

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Details about this:
The scene shows four little girls chatting prior to baptism in Birmingham, Alabama.
What happened?
As they make their way down the stairs a bomb explodes and kill them all
Why is it important? What does it show?
It is important as we contrast the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for his effort to achieve civil rights with violent and destructive means from white supremacists. The bomb which kills the four young girls present the lack boundaries from the white supremacists targeting a church and young children in order to deter civil right activists to make their protests head.

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What happened when Martin Luther King meets president Johnson

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What happened when Martin Luther King meets president Johnson

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The president praised King, with friendly remarks, but they start talking about civil right movement.
Johnson mentions King refusing to accept a role in his government.

What is King asking for?
King says that he wants to talk about the right to vote.
When King is ignored, what does he do?
He explains politely and clearly the situation: "You asked how you can

help. We want Federal legislation

granting Negroes the right to vote

unencumbered. We want Federal

protocol to eliminate the decades-

long dismissal, intimidation and

illegal denial of blacks seeking to

vote, by local registrars who seek

to withhold this right. And... we

want robust enforcement of that

protocol." [...]
"there’ve been thousands of racially-motivated murders in the

South, including those four little

girls, and [...] you know the

astounding fact that not one of those criminals, who murder us when and why they want, has ever  been convicted. [...]

Not one conviction. Because they're protected by white officials chosen by an all-white electorate. And on the rare occasions they face trial, they're freed by all-white juries. All-white because you can't serve on a jury unless you're registered to vote."

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White officials, supported by the KKK, control voting register, the KKK intimidates those trying to vote.
"Voting in Selma!" [...] "They say that the local white leadership use their power to keep us away from the ballot box and keep us voiceless."

The president's denial to support them at that time of their meeting, King decides on going to Selma.
Vote is difficult for black people in Alabama: "They say it is unacceptable that more than 50% of Selma is Negro and less than 2% of Negros here can vote."

"But what we do primarily is raise white consciousness. In particular the consciousness of whichever white man happens to be sitting in the Oval Office. Kennedy ignored us in Albany - because he could - because the press and the TV ignored us.

And right now Johnson has other fish to fry and he'll ignore us, too - if he can. The only way to stop him doing that is by being on the front page of national press every morning and on the TV news every night. And that requires drama.
Now, John, James, answer me one question. I've been told the Sheriff in this town ain’t like Laurie Pritchett in Albany. He's a big ignorant bully like Bull Connor in Birmingham. You tell me. You know Selma. You know Sheriff Jim Clark. Is he Laurie Pritchett? Or is he Bull Connor?

LEWIS

He’s Bull Connor."

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When the group marches from Selma to Montgomery, what happens? 

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When the group marches from Selma to Montgomery, what happens? 

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State troopers prevent the march to continue and then charges the demonstrators armed with batons and barbed-wires, tear-gas and horses.
What is shown in the media?
The media presents the police brutality as it happens.

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Where was it?
Selma is in Alabama, one of the deep south states, where slavery was important.
What happened there?

Do they still have segregation/discrimination?
The beginning of the film shows the bombing and the attempt to register for a vote, which was rejected

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What does King hope the march in Selma will achieve?

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What does King hope the march in Selma will achieve?

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They hope that the cameras will report the police violence so that the president will be forced to intervene.
"You mean there was no cameras.

KING

Exactly. Now I know, we all understand, that you young people believe in working in the community long-term. Doing the good work to raise black consciousness. Going door to door. Educating people about government and history. Being in the trenches for years if necessary. It’s good grassroots work. I can't tell you how much I admire that. But what we do primarily is raise white consciousness."

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While King is in prison, his wife meets Malcom X. What happened at the meeting?

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While King is in prison, his wife meets Malcom X. What happened at the meeting?

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Malcom X is coming to support King by showing that they should rally under King to avoid him as an alternative, a more violent alternative: "But because we don't agree, Mrs. King, does not mean that I'm the enemy.
[...]
A lot of work has been done here, and I don't intend to see it undone tonight.
Let's just say, my eyes see in a new way.
But your local sheriff here?
He doesn't know that.
So allow me to be the alternative to your husband.
The alternative that scares them so much they turn to Dr. King in refuge."

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How does the film shows white supremacists?

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How does the film shows white supremacists?

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They appear to use violence rather than words, the bombing, the punching of King as he comes to the hotel in Selma
Anonymous threats on the phone contribute to daily insecurity.

No tolerance for non-white, ready to use violence against old or young.

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King is released from prison, what happens next?

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King is released from prison, what happens next?

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As King goes to a fundraiser event in California, people organise a night march where they're ambush by police who beat up and kill marchers.