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There were previously unthinkable triumphs: protests at Birmingham and Selma, Ala., that helped topple Jim Crow; a quarter-million Americans gathering in Washington to demand racial equality; black activists and Northern white volunteers registering hordes of black voters; a civil-rights act outlawing racial discrimination, passed despite a three-month Senate filibuster.
Employing historical footage, the film also shows state troopers attacking voter-registration marchers in Selma on March 7, 1965, with tear gas and clubs.
John Lewis, a giant of the civil rights movement, who was seriously injured by Wallace's thuggy troops at Selma.
"Y'all always do the same," says the white mayor of 60 percent black Selma, Ala., at the end of their interview.
Put that pair in your personal ad, and you'll be dating my aunt Helen (if you're a man) or my uncle Morty (if you're a neat and prudent gay man) or my uncle Herb (if you're a straight woman and his mother, my great-aunt Selma, says it's OK).