so he devoted his life to the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. made a positive impact on history through the protests he led, such as the Selma march, Birmingham protests and the March on Washington. The Selma to Montgomery march made a positive impact on history by making the nation more aware of the civil rights movement. The Selma to Montgomery march was a protest led by King for the right to vote for African-Americans (King

collective understandings of the past, the cognitive and cultural factors which shape those understandings, as well as the relations of historical understandings to those of the present and the future.” Television news documents events such as the Selma-Montgomery march to propagate its own version of history. The news painted a narrative of the march that saw African Americans as heroes in a righteous protest, fighting for the democracy that their nation prided itself on, and the White Americans

the movie Selma, President Johnson was portrayed as the bad guy. Johnson was made to look like he wasn't for the voting rights of African Americans. The portrayal of Johnson was inaccurate. Johnson was not against the voting rights for blacks. But actually pushed for the Civil Rights Movement and signed Voting Rights Act on August 6,1965. In the movie Johnson was shown to spy and bug Martin Luther King, but it Johnson never ordered the surveillance against King. On March 7, 1965 in Selma Alabama

On March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, the first of three Civil Right marches took place on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The purpose of these peaceful marches was to protest the discriminatory voter registration practices that kept African-American citizens in Alabama from voting. As the peaceful protesters crossed the bridge, they were greeted by Alabama state troopers, who instructed them to end the protest immediately; when the protesters refused, the state troopers unleashed a barrage of attacks.

God Damn” has a lot of emotion in it and I feel that is still powerful today because people can have a hard time expressing themselves. But her song is so clear and, shows the troubles of that time that are still relevant today. Then the March in Selma has such a powerful effect on the civil rights movement. The march is what practically brought the voting problems to an end. The history of the 1960s and other time periods too have a huge representation when it was released and a huge representation

The Selma to Montgomery March Imagine not being able to vote, to choose your own government officials, to serve on juries, or to choose the kind of country you lived in. During the Selma march of 1965, they were marching so that African Americans would be able to vote and to make these choices. The Selma to Montgomery March was important in the Civil Rights Movement because of the events that led up to it, the march itself, and because it helped pass the Voting Rights Act. The events that led up

In the movie “Selma” the director focuses more on the problems in Selma and Martin Luther King’s involvement in the march from Selma to Montgomery. The purpose of the march was to fight for equal voting rights. Whereas in The movie “Malcolm X” The director showed a lot of background information about Malcolm before he became a civil rights activist.. The directors of these two movies used background information, religion and their separate approaches on how to handle the civil rights movement

Selma March occurred March 21-25, 1965, led by Martin Luther King. It was a crucial event in the American Civil Rights Movement. To a high extent did the Selma March directly lead to the Voting Rights Act 1965 change. However, to a lesser extent did the Jim Crow Law also influence the decisions. It is a set of laws that represent and enforce segregation and discrimination. Selma March, with the help of the president's involvement and publicity, helped trigger public opinion and political action