REEL BOB: Superb ‘Selma’ pays homage to King, marchers
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By Bob Bloom “Selma” is a very good movie that, were it not for a few false notes, could have been a great film. Set in 1965, the movie follows the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr. to secure the right to vote for blacks in the South. Despite passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, Southern states still used various and questionable methods to keep blacks from the polls.
REEL BOB: Superb ‘Selma’ pays homage to King, marchers
REEL BOB: Superb ‘Selma’ pays homage to King…
REEL BOB: Superb ‘Selma’ pays homage to King, marchers
By Bob Bloom “Selma” is a very good movie that, were it not for a few false notes, could have been a great film. Set in 1965, the movie follows the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr. to secure the right to vote for blacks in the South. Despite passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, Southern states still used various and questionable methods to keep blacks from the polls.