January 14, 2023
MLK Day at the OWHL: Screening Selma
The OWHL will screen Selma on MLK Day at 6:30. This post provides resources for thinking through the film.by Derek Curtis
As part of Andover's taking-the-day-on celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the OWHL will screen Ava DuVernay's Selma at 6:30pm in the Freeman Room.
This post provides readers with essays on the film and the historic events depicted in the film. It also gives readers links for some of the books about Selma in the OWHL's collection.
Essays and Articles on Selma:
Andrew Young on LBJ-Selma Controversy
Depiction of LBJ in Selma Raises Hackles
What Selma Gets Right - and Wrong - About Civil Rights History
History of the Civil Rights Movement in Selma:
The Selma-To-Montgomery Marches
Voting Rights and The Color of Law
Testimony of John Lewis on Selma
Selma Helped Define John Lewis’s Life
Books in the OWHL about Selma:
Selma, 1965: The March That Changed the South
Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-Rights Days
The House by the Side of the Road: The Selma Civil Rights Movement
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights
March, Book One by John Lewis
March, Book Two by John Lewis
March, Book Three by John Lewis