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Film, Video Selma, the Voting Rights Act & Reel History

Event video

Transcript: TEXT

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Title

  • Selma, the Voting Rights Act & Reel History

Summary

  • Gary May finds himself among several scholars who think the film Selma is seriously flawed. He explores the significance and continuing importance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, includes a critique of how the stories behind the Act are framed in the Hollywood lens and raises questions as to what such re-presentations mean for teaching and learning about history.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2015-07-07.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  civil rights movement, Voting Rights Act of 1964, Selma

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Gary May.
  • -  Recorded on 2015-07-07.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689838

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Selma, the Voting Rights Act & Reel History. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-07, 2015. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689838/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2015) Selma, the Voting Rights Act & Reel History. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-07. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689838/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Selma, the Voting Rights Act & Reel History. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-07, 2015. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689838/>.