Martin Luther King Day And Black History

The Civil Rights Movement had several pros however there are cons to every situation. The suffering of people were cured by the medicine of the great personality that still stand as the role model of the world, Martin Luther King Jr. He cured the people with the speeches they delivered and the letters they wrote. The letters and speeches delivered during this movement had been very inspirational in which it made more people want to become a part of this immense movement. Martin Luther King Jr. was very inspirational but had different ways to handle things than other civil rights movement leaders. MLK Jr. was a very big contributor to the Civil Rights Movement but he said everything through “The Letter from Birmingham”. The Civil rights Movement

No matter where in the world or what period in time, there is always someone being oppressed or experiencing some form of maltreatment or discrimination. Throughout history, people have been judged or had their basic human rights infringed upon. That is why movies like Selma are so important because they shine a light on these events and transgressions, that need to be brought to people’s attention. The movie Selma was a real eye-opener in terms of the events that took place during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s. It presented many of its arguments in ways no adaptation of the story had successfully done before. Many of the actor portrayals of historical figures were so veracious it was as if the figures themselves were carrying out the plot of the movie. The overlying themes of the movie were also very apparent and easy to, if not to relate to, at least understand and empathize where the characters were coming from in a sense. Not only the dialogue, or strictly what you see being depicted on screen alone make the movie so gripping and emotionally poignant, things such as the music, or how the movie is put together and laid out to affect the emotions of the viewers.

Dr. King was a man who was born in Atlanta, Georgia. When he was young he always wasn’t able to get shielded from racism by his mother and grandmother. When he was 12 years old his grandmother died of a severe heart attack. When he was in college he earned a sociology degree. He thrived in every subject for all of his years in school. He grew up to be a Baptist minister and Civil Rights activist. He was assassinated and the shooters name was James Earl Ray.

On the second march through Selma, 1/3 of the participants were white. I also did not know MLK Jr. was arrested during a silent protest in front of Selma’s registration office in hopes of getting Blacks in to vote after it became legal. I assumed he would have stayed on the sidelines, quiet and never troubled by the police. After Malcom X, who showed to be against King, and insinuated that the white men pay the black preachers to keep the Negroes defenseless, was shot after meeting up and talking with King’s wife privately.

The movie Selma directed by Ava DuVernay, written by Paul Webb tells about a short chapter in Martin Luther King's continuing fight for civil rights. After being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts against prejudice he, along with others, orchestrated a march from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama. Throughout his life, Martin Luther King Jr. knew he still had a long way to go before equality was achieved, and David Oyelowo, who played him, portrays just that.

today is seen as the “poster-child” of the civil rights era. He is widely considered the biggest contributor for progress in this era. His speeches were captivating, and truly represented what everyone at the time was feeling. Here is an excerpt from his historic “I have a dream speech”, King illustrates by saying,”I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.” If this doesn’t create a picture in your head, then who knows what will. This is just a dream at the time, and as we know most dreams are far fetched. People thought that blacks and whites sitting together at a table would never be a normality. This was a though believed to happen only in a distant utopian society. Blacks and whites sitting together in the present day, but are we some sort of utopian

Selma opens with Coretta Scott King tying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s tie the night he is due to accept his Nobel Peace Prize. The scene transitions to four young black girls walking downstairs in an Alabama church and then killed by a bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan. The introduction sets the foundation for the Civil Rights battle depicted throughout the film. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, but discrimination was rampant in some areas. Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) decided Alabama would be the perfect place to fight for equal rights. Dr. King and his followers forged forward on a historical march from Selma to Montgomery. Their efforts, although met with opposition, eventually

I have watched the movie Selma Lord Selma and thought that the success of the march at the end of the movie was the end of Dr. King's efforts in the Civil Rights Movement. However, I learned that he made so many other efforts supporting these sanitation workers get their basic rights. For me, that is very important because it increased the value of Dr. King to me and opened my eyes to the pain and stress that he had to go through for these people to have a better

Selma is a movie that portrays the Civil Rights Act that took place in 1964 directed by Ava DuVernay. DuVernay was in need to document an important event like Selma into a film to stress the oppression that Blacks had to fight for to get the chance to vote. During this past election, people did not vote because they did not like who was running for president. Also some voters did not take this election seriously by voting for a dead gorilla. Those idiotic voters do not understand the struggle that Blacks had to face. Despite the main goal of Blacks wanted the chance to vote, the film also viewed how the local and federal government acted on this violence against Blacks. Local police officers attacked Blacks for nonviolently protesting and fighting

The movie was filled with extraordinary acting, it consisted of a plethora of fighting scenes. The feature Selma was filled with songs from the 60’s and late 50’s. The movie also, really made a connection to how Mlk got the Negros respected by the whites. One thing in the film I disfavoured was how in the beginning it took like five to ten minutes to explain background information.

‘Selma’ is the true story of the hectic three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a dangerous campaign to gain equal voting rights. The extraordinary march from Selma to Montgomery concluded with the President at the time (President Johnson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most important achievements of the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay's ‘Selma’ tells the story of how the honored leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took part in a movement that forever altered history.

‘’Selma’’ is a Plan B Entertainment movie which was realized in 2014. This revealing and ingenious American historical drama film is directed by Ava DuVernay, written by Paul Webb and produced by Christian Colson (among others). David Oyelow as Martin L. King, Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon B. Johnson, Tim Roth as George Wallace and Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King (Martin’s wife) are part of the movie’s outstanding cast. This remarkable film had four Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture/Drama, Best Director, and Best Actor. What is more, it won for Best Original Song and it was nominated for Best Picture and won Best Original Song at the 87th Academy Awards.

In a utopia, “Selma” would exist as the of darker days of American history. It would give people reassurances that horrors will no longer be tolerated or celebrated. At last we come to the horrific truth. This was just the beginning of such an extensive battle. “Selma” shows the evolution of change while beaming a spotlight on the stunted growth of that which has not changed. Its spine-chilling reminder that those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it. Its story provides a picture of not only of the past, but of the way forward.

In my opinion, Martin Luther King’s dream has been realized and appreciated by society to some extent, but black communities continue to be discriminated today. For example, the rights of black people are more appreciated by society today compared to in the 1900’s because of various different “Black Lives Matter’’ movements and organizations trying to emphasize the rights of black lives. However, black people are still treated and respected in a worse manner today compared to the white race. The black community has been subject to unjust and unreasonable violence lately from law enforcement which has sparked a lot of unwanted violence and protests regarding the “Black Lives Matter Movement”.

Through the loss and the success of the marches conducted from Selma to Montgomery, its movie adaptation ‘Selma’ sees as an accurate representation. The events that occurred both shocked and left people in a wondrous state, they would leave the movie theatre with a mind full of fact – and only minuscule traces of fiction. The murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson, the ‘Bloody Sunday’ march and the celebrated final march, evidently represent the events that occurred in 1965 in its Hollywood alternative