Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot
The story of a courageous group of students and teachers who, along with other activists, fought a nonviolent battle to win voting rights for African Americans in the South. Standing in their way: a century of Jim Crow, a resistant and segregationist state, and a federal government slow to fully embrace equality. By organizing and marching bravely in the face of intimidation, violence, arrest, and even murder, these change-makers achieved one of the most significant victories of the civil rights era.
- Runtime
- 40m
- Released
- 2015
Details
Release year: 2015
Storyline
The story of a courageous group of students and teachers who, along with other activists, fought a nonviolent battle to win voting rights for African Americans in the South. Standing in their way: a century of Jim Crow, a resistant and segregationist state, and a federal government slow to fully embrace equality. By organizing and marching bravely in the face of intimidation, violence, arrest, and even murder, these change-makers achieved one of the most significant victories of the civil rights era.
Top credits
- Roland Buck III — Charles Mauldin
- Artrial Clark — Henry Allen
- Nicole Forbes — Lynda Blackmon
- Michael London — Weathered Face - Black Man