THE MOVIE SELMA AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE Just got back from watching this great movie. It was all about, not so much about civil rights, but voting rights. People of color, black and white would join with Dr Martin Luther King Jr, march with him after “Bloody Sunday” What is Bloody Sunday? Six hundred marchers assembled in Selma Alabama on Sunday, March 7, 1965. They were led by John Lewis and other SNCC and SCLC activists. As they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River en route to Montgomery. Just short of the bridge, they found their way blocked by Alabama State troopers and local police who ordered them to turn around. When the protesters refused, the officers shot teargas and waded into the crowd, beating the nonviolent protesters with billy clubs and ultimately hospitalizing over fifty people. After millions watch the incident, on live TV, thousands would later join the protest. Black and white people, including Dr.King, would later lose their lives fighting for equal rights, the right to register and vote. You should all go watch the movie, especially those of you who chose not to vote. Perhaps you will then see the error of your ways. Perhaps then your eyes will be opened to what not voting can cost you, your family. What it has cost others, giving some of us the right to cast a single vote. Thanks for the Reading.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 02:00:33 +0000
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