This month’s Corrie film club selection is the Oscar-winning film Selma, the inspira tional and powerful story of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s epic civil rights struggle.
The unforgettable true story chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr King led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition.
The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most signifi-cant victories for the civil rights movement.