Selma Movie Analysis

Martin Luther King Jr. was an important figure head in black civil right movements. He was one of the numerous people willing to stand up against racial inequality and fight for equal rights for everyone. Without his efforts, the United States would be completely different than how it is today. The movie “Selma” was a great way to portray and bring attention to the horrible racism America had in the 1960s. In my opinion, this movie really expressed the strife and hardships that King and his supporters went through. Before this movie I had only a general idea of the struggles that the black community faced but after seeing that way the white officers and people attacked the blacks, it suddenly dawned on me how bad the violence was.

The most important scene of the movie is when King the protesters march the Edmund Pettus Bridge in protest of equal rights and

One of them was that President Hoover wasn’t willing to make a stand for the blacks until later on. He believed that granting voting rights for everyone no matter your skin color would cause confrontation within America. He looked the other way when he heard of violence in the South and he did nothing about until he was finally convinced to grant equal voting rights for everyone. Another problem that King ran into were the while community and officers. With every protest and march, white officers would be there to stop the movement and be readily equipped to attack peaceful protesters. Even outside of the demonstrations, as seen in the movie, white people would constantly be calling the blacks disgusting names and they would even assault white people who supported that black population. One of the last problems that King endured was that not all of his followers were willing to be non-violent. The blacks were constantly getting beat down and killed and they had the idea that the only way to retaliate was with physical