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Selma101: A Learning Companion

According to Array 101, "The feature film SELMA follows the journey of the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 from the perspective of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.This learning companion will highlight three key themes amplified in the film."

Available from Drake LRC

Civil Rights: Selma to Montgomery by National Archives and Records Service, © 2010
This Day In History : March 7, 1965 - "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, AL by The WPA Film Library, © 1965
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement 1954 to 1985 by PBS, © 1994

Selma 1965 by Charles Feger, © 1974

Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-rights Days (ebook) by Sheyann Webb, © 1997

Selma by Ava Duvernay © 2014