Selma, Lord, Selma
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Selma, Lord, Selma
-- Fine dramatization, seen through the eyes of two African-American schoolgirls, of the 1965 struggle led by Martin Luther King Jr. (Clifton Powell) to register black citizens to vote in Selma, Alabama. Television coverage of their non-violent march, met with clubs and tear gas, led President Johnson to propose a voting rights bill passed by Congress. Director Charles Burnett vividly re-creates the pivotal civil rights events while also humanizing the participants and the solidarity that developed among blacks, whites and members of various religious denominations united the cause of social justice. (A-I) (nr)
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1999
)
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- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- A-IV**
- L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
- O -- morally offensive.
** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.