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Jan 04, 2015 · The White House sends Assistant Attorney General John Doar (Alessandro Nivola) to Selma to persuade King to postpone the demonstration until the federal government could protect the marchers.
Jun 12, 2014 · Nivola’s character, Doar, who was the assistant attorney general for civil rights for the Department of Justice in the 1960s, protected …
Jan 15, 2015 · In the movie, Cuba Gooding, Jr. plays Fred Gray, an attorney who worked behind the scenes to convince Judge Frank Minis Johnson to allow protesters to march from Selma to …
100%Such caution need not apply to Selma - Ava DuVernay's fascinating biopic focused on civil rights leader Martin Luther King; it has been deemed 100% historically accurate.Nov 29, 2016
Selma (2014)David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King.Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon Baines Johnson.Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King.Andre Holland as Andrew Young.Omar J. Dorsey as James Orange.Alessandro Nivola as John Doar.Giovanni Ribisi as Lee White.Colman Domingo as Ralph Abernathy.More items...•Dec 24, 2014
Martin Luther KingOn 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC ...
James George Robinson, a white states righter, attacked King for trying to register at the hotel, a formerly whites only business in Selma, Alabama. He punched King several times, and before black onlookers intervened, kicked him in the groin.Jun 1, 2016
Eventually, the march went on unimpeded -- and the echoes of its significance reverberated so loudly in Washington, D.C., that Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, which secured the right to vote for millions and ensured that Selma was a turning point in the battle for justice and equality in the United States.
The second march took place March 9. Troopers, police, and marchers confronted each other at the county end of the bridge, but when the troopers stepped aside to let them pass, King led the marchers back to the church. He was obeying a federal injunction while seeking protection from federal court for the march.
On March 9, King led more than 2,000 marchers, Black and white, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge but found Highway 80 blocked again by state troopers. King paused the marchers and led them in prayer, whereupon the troopers stepped aside.Jan 11, 2022
SelmaEdmund Pettus Bridge / LocationSelma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west. Located on the banks of the Alabama River, the city has a population of 20,756 as of the 2010 census. About 80% of the population is African-American. Wikipedia
The Edmund Pettus Bridge, now a National Historic Landmark, was the site of the brutal Bloody Sunday beatings of civil rights marchers during the first march for voting rights.
Even though blacks slightly outnumbered whites in the city of 29,500 people, Selma's voting rolls were 99 percent white and 1 percent black. For seven weeks, King led hundreds of Selma's black residents to the county courthouse to register to vote.
The Edmund Pettus BridgeThe Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 Business (US 80 Bus.) across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama. Built in 1940, it is named after Edmund Winston Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general, U.S. senator, and state-level leader ("Grand Dragon") of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan.
George WallaceIn office 1946–1952Personal detailsBornGeorge Corley Wallace Jr.August 25, 1919 Clio, Alabama, U.S.DiedSeptember 13, 1998 (aged 79) Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.37 more rows
In fact, Johnson is portrayed as one of the film’s antagonists, though not as dastardly as Alabama governor George Wallace (Tim Roth) and the local Selma rednecks.
Movie: President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) is mistrustful of King’s agenda and rejects his urgent pleas for federal legislation that will specifically secure and protect the right to vote for minorities. He resents King’s meddling activism and needs to be dragged to a point of acquiescence before taking up the cause.
Bayard Rustin was an important but controversial part of the civil rights movement of the 1960s for two reasons. First, he was a member of the Communist party from 1936 to 1941. Second, he was gay. Despite some discomfort from other activists, Bayard was instrumental in organizing the 1963 March on Washington. He later became active in LGBT issues, in 1986 giving a speech controversially titled, "The New Niggers Are Gays."
Since then, Hoover's biographers have largely painted a picture of a paranoid and vindictive power monger. It's unclear what his motives were, but in the '60s he tried to discredit Martin Luther King. First, he leaned on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's connections to communist organizations. When that failed to damage King's reputation, Hoover switched tacks, gathering evidence of King's extramarital affairs. He used this information in attempts to smear King, and, as seen in the movie, likely used it to try and break up his family.
George Wallace served a total of four terms as governor of Alabama, three of them after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had been passed. He remained a staunch segregationist, a position he arguably adopted in the late ‘50s to curry favor with Alabama’s many white segregationist voters.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (David Oyelowo) Library of Congress | Paramount. The movie opens with King receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his work in the Civil Rights movement. He was only 36 when the Selma marches took place, and the three deaths that occurred while he was there (Jimmie Lee Jackson, James Reeb, ...
With his dark robes and tall hat, Archbishop Iakovos was a very visible supporter of civil rights in the 1960s. A picture of the Greek Orthodox leader marching in Selma, arm-in-arm with Martin Luther King, Jr., made it to the cover of Life magazine. He remained a staunch human rights activist and met with every U.S. president from Eisenhower up to Bill Clinton.
He literally taught demonstrators how to march and occupy space in visible ways without participating in violence. He worked with fellow activist Diane Nash on the Nashville sit-ins to end segregation at lunch counters. He and Nash were married for seven years and had two children together. Bevel's legacy is muddled, though. In the '80s he broke ranks to join the controversial Lyndon LaRouche, and in 2007 he was arrested on charges of sexually abusing one of his daughters. He was convicted of the charges, but died shortly after of pancreatic cancer in 2008.
Coretta Scott King (Carmen Ejogo) Coretta Scott King proved herself to be much more than Martin Luther King's wife and mother to their four children. Even before Martin's death, Coretta complained publicly of sexism in the civil rights movement, working to get women more involved.
In December 1964, Martin Luther King Jr (David Oyelowo, perfect) meets President Lyndon B Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) to discuss the issue of black people being denied their legal right to vote. Johnson wants King to wait.
Former Johnson assistant Joseph A Califano Jr has alleged that Johnson and King “were partners in this effort. Johnson was enthusiastic about voting rights and the president urged King to find a place like Selma and lead a major demonstration”.
It is true, as some critics have pointed out, that Johnson had asked his acting attorney general to work on black voting rights in mid-1964. As Goldman noted, though: “The assignment was long-range and was to be kept out of the press.
Selma does a magnificent job of recreating important historical scenes, such as the events of 7 March 1965 – known as Bloody Sunday – in which Alabama state troops and local police attacked peaceful marchers. “The whole nation was sickened by the pictures of that wild melee,” wrote King’s widow Coretta Scott King.
In the screenplay, all of King’s fabulously distinctive phrases had to be unpicked and convincingly respun.
Selma is ultimately balanced on Johnson, letting him have his moment of glory with the best speech of his presidency, “We shall overcome” – written for him by the brilliant Richard Goodwin, who historical film fans may remember from Quiz Show. It is also balanced on King, revealing his flaws as well as his strengths.
Selma is a well-researched, accomplished and fair-minded biopic, set around a sensationally good lead performance. Don’t believe the hype.
Those who had previously felt that winning the vote would not improve their lives were inspired to overcame their fears and join the movement.
On that day in 1965, Alabama state troopers and local police brutally assaulted 600 African Americans, members of Martin Luther King’s voting rights campaign. Beaten and shocked by billy clubs and cattle prods, trampled by horses, and choked by clouds of tear gas, the marchers fell back and fled for their lives. When someone called for an ambulance, Selma’s Sheriff, Jim Clark, replied, “Let the buzzards eat them.” President Lyndon Johnson later compared the assault to Lexington and Concord, a turning point in American history because it touched the conscience of the nation and accelerated the passage of the historic Voting Rights Act.
Doar was born in New Richmond, Wisconsin, the son of Mae and William Doar. In 1940, Doar graduated from St. Paul Academy and Summit School in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and was a pilot. He graduated with an A.B.
Doar was hired in December 1973 to be the lead special counsel for the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry staff during the impeachment process against Richard Nixon. He supervised a team which in due course grew to 100 persons, including lawyers, investigators, clerks and stenographers.
He then started a law firm in New York City: Doar, Rieck, Kaley, & Mack.
John Doar papers from Princeton University Library. Special Collections