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...also discussed a victory in a voting rights case in Selma, Alabama in 1985, as an example of how she had learned from those she was representing...
...early days of the civil rights movement, the law was no protection--rather the reverse. But as young John Lewis, son of poor Alabama farmers, said, "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?" Lewis, who led the marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965, and went on to become a U.S. Congressman years later, emerges as a kind of saint, the best of the best...
...Right Reverend Barbara Harris--once a marcher with the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.--was ordained as a bishop in 1989. She is currently a suffragan bishop for the Eastern Massachusetts diocese of the Anglican Church...
...using moonlight and north-facing moss to get to freedom. Years later, regiments of blacks again marched north, this time in the great migration, drawn by jobs and away from Jim Crow. In the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the most poignant images were of the march: from Selma to Montgomery, then to Washington and the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr. tell of a dream. New laws signaled the next campaign: blacks and whites heading toward an integrated, egalitarian society...
...Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!" From here the film whirls through key moments in Wallace's career: blocking the door at the University of Alabama to prevent two black students from entering; ordering the use of tear gas and billy clubs to oppose Martin Luther King's march from Selma; and falsely blaming Black Muslims for the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham that killed four young girls. Frankenheimer is particularly adept at capturing the mayhem Wallace causes on the presidential campaign trail. An inspired bit of casting has fat, hirsute porn star Ron Jeremy playing a working-class Bostonian, yelling...