[NFBNJ] Fwd: Movie Selma

Tue Jan 4 23:16:40 UTC 2022

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From: Steve Cook <cookcafe at sc.rr.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 5:34 PM
Subject: Selma
To: Linda Melendez <president at nfbnj.org>

Hi Linda,

Feel free to share with your members!

Date: Friday, January 8, 2022

Time: 8:00 PM Eastern

Location: Federation Center Zoom

Movie, Selma

Plot

In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC) accepts his Nobel Peace Prize. Four black girls walking
down stairs in the Birmingham, Alabama 16th Street Baptist Church are
killed by a bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan. Annie Lee Cooper attempts to
register to vote in Selma, Alabama, but is prevented by the white
registrar. King meets with Lyndon B. Johnson and asks for federal
legislation to allow black citizens to register to vote unencumbered, but
the president responds that, although he understands Dr. King's concerns,
he has more important projects. King travels to Selma with Ralph Abernathy,
Andrew Young, James Orange, and Diane Nash. James Bevel greets them, and
other SCLC activists appear. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover tells Johnson
that King is a problem, and suggests they disrupt his marriage. Coretta
Scott King has concerns about her husband's upcoming work in Selma. King
calls singer Mahalia Jackson to inspire him with a song.

King, other SCLC leaders, and black Selma residents march to the
registration office to register. After a confrontation in front of the
courthouse, a shoving match occurs as the police go into the crowd. Cooper
fights back, knocking Sheriff Jim Clark to the ground, leading to the
arrest of Cooper, King, and others.

Alabama Governor George Wallace speaks out against the movement. Coretta
meets with Malcolm X, who says he will drive whites to ally with King by
advocating a more extreme position. Wallace and Al Lingo decide to use
force at an upcoming night march in Marion, Alabama, using state troopers
to assault the marchers. A group of protesters runs into a restaurant to
hide, but troopers rush in and beat and shoot Jimmie Lee Jackson. King and
Bevel meet with Cager Lee, Jackson's grandfather, at the morgue. King
speaks to ask people to continue to fight for their rights. Harassing phone
calls with a recording of sexual activity implied to be King and another
woman lead to an argument with Coretta; she knows it is a fabrication, but
the strain of constant death threats has taken its toll on her. King is
criticized by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC).

As the Selma-to-Montgomery march is about to begin, King talks to Young
about delaying it for a day so he can spend some time with his family, but
Young convinces King to let the march begin as scheduled without him,
saying he can join later. The marchers, including John Lewis of SNCC, Hosea
Williams of SCLC, and Selma activist Amelia Boynton, cross the Edmund
Pettus Bridge and approach a line of state troopers who put on gas masks.
The troopers order the marchers to turn back and, when the marchers hold
their ground, the troopers attack with clubs, horses, tear gas, and other
weapons. Lewis and Boynton are among those badly injured. The attack is
shown on national television and the wounded are treated at Brown Chapel,
the movement's headquarter church.

Movement attorney Fred Gray asks federal Judge Frank Minis Johnson to let
another attempt at the march go forward. President Johnson demands that
King and Wallace cease their activities and sends Assistant Attorney
General John Doar to convince King to postpone the next march. Numerous
white Americans, including Viola Liuzzo and James Reeb, arrive to join the
second march. Marchers cross the bridge again and see the state troopers
lined up, but the troopers turn aside to let them pass. King, after
praying, turns around and leads the group away, which again draws sharp
criticism from SNCC activists. That evening, Reeb is beaten to death by an
angry white mob on a street in Selma.

After a hearing, Judge Johnson approves the march. President Johnson speaks
before a Joint Session of Congress to ask for quick passage of a bill to
eliminate restrictions on voting, praising the courage of the activists.
The march on the highway to Montgomery takes place, and, when the marchers
reach Montgomery, King delivers a speech on the steps of the State Capitol.

Cast

David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, Jr.[8]

Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King[9]

Oprah Winfrey as Annie Lee Cooper[10]

Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon B. Johnson[11]

Giovanni Ribisi as Lee C. White[12]

André Holland as Andrew Young[13]

Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Bayard Rustin

Colman Domingo as Ralph Abernathy[14]

Omar Dorsey as James Orange

Tessa Thompson as Diane Nash[15]

Common as James Bevel[16]

Lorraine Toussaint as Amelia Boynton Robinson[17]

E. Roger Mitchell as Frederick D. Reese

Dylan Baker as J. Edgar Hoover[18]

Ledisi Young as Mahalia Jackson[19]

Kent Faulcon as Sullivan Jackson[20]

Niecy Nash as Richie Jean Jackson[20]

Corey Reynolds as C. T. Vivian

Wendell Pierce as Hosea Williams[21]

John Lavelle as Roy Reed[22]

Stephan James as John Lewis[23]

Trai Byers as James Forman[24]

Lakeith Stanfield as Jimmie Lee Jackson[25]

Henry G. Sanders as Cager Lee

Stan Houston as Sheriff Jim Clark

Tim Roth as George Wallace[26]

Nigél Thatch as Malcolm X

Stephen Root as Al Lingo

Michael Papajohn as Major John Cloud

Jeremy Strong as James Reeb[27]

Tara Ochs as Viola Liuzzo

Cuba Gooding Jr. as Fred Gray[28]

Alessandro Nivola as John Doar[29]

Michael Shikany as Archbishop Iakovos

Martin Sheen[30] as Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)

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Federation of the Blind of SC

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