Personal reaction to Selma
Although segregation was made illegal in the south Martin Luther King Jr. and the African American community still faced discrimination. This movie goes into all the challenges MLK and his followers went through to push President Lyndon Johnson into signing the Voting rights act of 1965.
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At first, I thought I wasn’t going to enjoy this movie. I usually prefer movies that are more exciting or comedies. Don’t get me wrong some of the protests are full of action and violence but this movie wouldn’t be my first choice. I thought the movie was going to be boring but that changed quickly. I actually found that all the non-violent protests and everything he did to try and eliminate segregation was fascinating. He didn’t believe in violent protests. For example when they stood in front of the county registration one of older African American men could not sit down so the police forcefully pushed him down. When his son was arguing with the police one of the officers raised his baton to hit him and his mother tackled the cop and that lead to a bunch of officers jumping on her. While this was happening no one in the protest fought back or used any other violence and that lead to arrests. I really enjoyed the story of how everything worked out and how MLK met with the president on occasions.
Going into this movie I knew a little about Martin Luther King Jr. I knew that he held non-violent protests and they were also pretty successful. I knew he was a very nice man who had many followers and most people listened to what he said had supported him.
I agree with your statements about first thinking it was going to be a boring movie. Also thought it was going to be boring but proved m wrong. Good response!
ReplyDeleteI also thought that the movie was going to be boring, but I ended up really liking it. I like how you brought up non violence, I think its very important in this movie.
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