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Originally published 03/23/2015
SMU Graduate Shares Never Published Photos of March 25, 1965 Selma-To-Montgomery March

When Southern Methodist University student Loy Williams hurriedly packed his bag before climbing aboard a bus bound to join civil rights protesters in Montgomery, Ala., he grabbed his Argus C3 camera.

Originally published 03/17/2015
I liked the movie, but “Selma” missed a few teaching moments

Julian E. Zelizer

There has been a lot written about what is wrong or right with the film Selma. Here are a few unexplored points.

Originally published 03/09/2015
Harvard’s Drew Faust remembers when she decided to march in Selma

She skipped her exams to participate.

Originally published 03/09/2015
Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed

Ari Berman

The laws are different, but racism persists.

Originally published 03/07/2015
Life Magazine's Coverage of Selma

See how Selma was reported by Life.

Originally published 03/06/2015
From Selma to Black Power

Benjamin Hedin

Only a few miles away from where the legendary march began, a new phase of civil-rights activism gathered momentum.

Originally published 03/06/2015
GOP leaders to skip Selma event

‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.

Originally published 03/06/2015
“The American Promise” — LBJ’s Finest Hour

Gary May

It is unusual when a presidential address stands the test of time. Lyndon Johnson’s “The American Promise” belongs in that special group of historic speeches. It still speaks to an America torn by racial discord and a challenge to the right to vote for all.

Originally published 03/05/2015
The Riot That Sparked the Selma March

Gary May

The racist violence in Selma, Alabama, 50 years ago lives in history as ‘‘Bloody Sunday,’’ but do not forget the February night of vigilantism in Marion that inspired the Selma March.

Originally published 03/04/2015
'Bloody Sunday' altered history of a horrified nation

Photos of that terrible day were seen around the world. Historians credit the beatings, and the public outrage that followed, as a catalyst for the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Originally published 03/03/2015
Civil Rights Landmark Bridge is Named for Reputed KKK Leader

The fact had all but faded from local memory until recently, when a Selma student group launched an online petition to rename the landmark bridge.

Originally published 03/02/2015
Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed

Ari Berman

Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.

Originally published 02/27/2015
Selma Is Now? No, Not Really.

James B. LaGrand

2014 ≠ 1965 or 1955 or the 1890s

Originally published 02/18/2015
These Iconic Photos Of The 1965 Selma March Give A Powerful Glimpse Of The Historic Protest

Photographer Stephen Somerstein chronicled the Selma demonstration through a series of images that authentically portray the events that took place over the course of the 54-mile march.

Originally published 02/16/2015
Photographs of the Selma March Get a Broader View

Spider Martin, a photographer for The Birmingham News in Alabama, captured the weekslong events of Selma in 1965 and other events of the civil rights era.

Originally published 02/09/2015
60 Minutes asks tough questions of Selma director

For the interview, DuVernay returned to Selma to tour filming locations and visit with family members who were a part of the Civil Rights movement in the 1965.

Originally published 01/28/2015
How the Martin Luther King estate controls the national hero’s image

Selma director Ava DuVernay may well have taken more license than artistically necessary in the confrontational scenes between Martin Luther King Jr. and President Johnson. But inaccuracies in other significant parts of the film were forced upon DuVernay by copyright law.

Originally published 01/23/2015
Obama to visit Selma for 50th anniversary of civil rights marches

Obama will visit the small southern town on March 7 as part of his administration's efforts to highlight the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Originally published 01/21/2015
At Harvard "Selma" director Ava DuVernay addressed some of the controversy surrounding the film

She said it was an experience screening the film at the White House where Woodrow Wilson had watched “Birth of a Nation.”

Originally published 01/20/2015
It’s not just “Selma”: Hollywood’s history problem

Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg

Again and again, from "John Adams" to "Lincoln," romantic truthiness supplants historical truth on-screen

Originally published 01/19/2015
The Slippery Slope We’re on with Selma

Sheldon Stern

Historical manipulation, even for the best of motives, can easily become a slippery slope on which no one can safely keep their footing.

Originally published 01/19/2015
Selma Corrects Hollywood’s History of the Civil Rights Movement

Ron Briley

Mississippi Burning depicted a top-down Civil Rights Movement in which whites played the leading role. Selma shows what really happened.

Originally published 01/18/2015
'Selma' Backlash Misses The Point

Joseph Peniel

The critiques are part of a larger debate about who owns American history, especially the portions of that history that were led, organized and shaped in large part by African-Americans.

Originally published 01/18/2015
Not Just a Movie

Maureen Dowd

Artful falsehood is more dangerous than artless falsehood, because fewer people see through it.

Originally published 01/16/2015
What I Know about Selma

Bernard Weisberger

Selma is worth seeing, but does the director’s decision to falsely claim that LBJ conspired with J. Edgar Hoover against King encourage truth-twisting?

Originally published 01/16/2015
HNN Hot Topic: Selma, the Movie

Everything you need to know before you go see the movie -- and after.

Originally published 01/16/2015
10 Things You Should Know About Selma Before You See the Film

Emilye Crosby

There is a "people's history" of Selma that we all can learn from—one that is needed especially now.

Originally published 01/16/2015
What Happened in Selma?

Alan Singer

As a result of the focus on King, two of the civil rights movement's more powerful vignettes, both covered in the documentary Eyes on the Prize, are left out of the movie.

Originally published 01/15/2015
These Rare Photos of the Selma March Place You in the Thick of History

James Barker, a photographer from Alaska, shares his memories of documenting the famed event

Originally published 01/15/2015
Here Are Some Possible Reasons Why Selma Keeps Getting Snubbed

Some, like Peniel Joseph, a history professor at Tufts University, have argued that the recent backlash against the film for its supposed misrepresentation of Lyndon Johnson is an attempt by white viewers to maintain control over the Civil Rights narrative.

Originally published 01/13/2015
Contrary to "Selma," tapes of LBJ show cordiality with King (Video)

The new movie "Selma' took in more than $11 million at the box office this weekend, second only to "Taken 3." There as been a lot of controversy about the historical accuracy of "Selma," especially its portrayal of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. We checked the record.

Originally published 01/12/2015
Should the Federal Government Be in the Business of Policing History?

Anthony Clark

Defenders of LBJ are less interested in history than in hagiography.

Originally published 01/12/2015
“Selma” overlooks the role of Ralph Abernathy

Ron Radosh

Selma’s director DuVernay apparently gave in to the wishes of the King family that Abernathy’s role be diminished, perhaps because of his disclosures over MLK’s womanizing.

Originally published 01/11/2015
‘Selma’ vs. History

Elizabeth Drew

By distorting an essential truth about the relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King over the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Selma has opened a very large and overdue debate over whether and how much truth the movie industry owes to the public.

Originally published 01/08/2015
How ‘Selma’ Diminishes Dr. King

Josh Zeitz

MLK was a political genius. Why does the film obscure that?

Originally published 01/02/2015
Depiction of Lyndon B. Johnson in ‘Selma’ Raises Hackles

Was Lyndon B. Johnson a civil rights mastermind, or a reluctant follower pulled along by activists led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

Originally published 12/30/2014
Selma director fights back against Lyndon B Johnson controversy

Johnson aide’s contention that civil-rights drama Selma falsely portrays the former president at odds with Martin Luther King Jr is “jaw-dropping and offensive”, says director Ava DuVernay.

Originally published 12/24/2014
Film Conjures Era That Some in Selma Would Rather Not Revisit

In a city struggling to emerge from the shadows of Jim Crow, the release of “Selma” has stirred complex emotions as residents reflect on the past and future

Originally published 12/23/2014
What ‘Selma’ Gets Wrong

Mark K. Updegrove

LBJ and MLK were close partners in reform.

Originally published 12/22/2014
Selma Documents Black History That Still Lives Today

Peniel E. Joseph

It’s been 50 years since voting-rights protesters on a bloody bridge in Alabama declared that black lives matter—and the unceasing struggle for justice goes on.

Originally published 12/03/2014
A movie’s coming about Selma

The director’s drawing media attention. She’s black and a woman — rare in Hollywood.