Selma
This movie
took place during the Civil Rights time period.
It was based on Selma, Alabama because approximately 50 percent of the
population there was of color and of that percentage of the population, only
about 2 percent of the colored people had voting rights.
Selma did
end up passing the Bechtel test.
There were
more than two female characters throughout the movie, but the movie highlighted
more of the male population. The women
would talk to each other about voting rights or the dangers of protesting.
Based on
the readings from chapter 1 in our book, this movie is more of the critical
race theory over feminism. I believe
this because it wasn’t women that were the main focus throughout the
movie. It was predominately black men that
fought for the right to vote. Women were
just there to support them and cry over the pain of losing a man in the fight
against racist terrorism that our country endured during the Civil Rights time
period.
Krista Wermerskirchen
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