MLK Day at the OWHL: Screening Selma

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

The Real Problem with Selma

Depiction of LBJ in Selma Raises Hackles

What Selma Gets Wrong

How Selma Got Smeared

Does Selma Get LBJ Wrong?

What Selma Gets Right - and Wrong - About Civil Rights History

What Matters in Selma

History of the Civil Rights Movement in Selma:

Selma Marches

The Selma-To-Montgomery Marches

What I Saw at Selma

Voting Rights and The Color of Law

Testimony of John Lewis on Selma

Selma Helped Define John Lewis’s Life

John Lewis Bridge Project

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

Protest at Selma

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