Answering the Call - the American struggle for the right to vote | starring Congressman John Lewis
The American struggle for the right to vote.
Fifty one years ago, the nation watched in horror as bloody images of police attacks on civil rights protestors in Selma, Alabama aired on television. John Witeck was a sophomore at the University of Virginia when he saw the graphic coverage of Bloody Sunday, and when Dr. King called for supporters to travel to Selma to march for justice he packed his bags and journeyed south. Fifty one years later, John and his nephew Brian Jenkins (Director) traveled back to Alabama to document John’s story of Selma, the fight for voting rights, and the evolution of the Voting Rights Act; the law that prevented voting discrimination and protected every American’s right to vote. In 2013, this monumental protection for all Americans earned by the blood of heroized civil rights advocates was struck down by the Supreme Court. Alabama and many other states have since passed new types of restrictive voting laws that those who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King fought so hard to overcome.protection for all Americans earned by the blood of heroized civil rights advocates was struck down by the Supreme Court. Alabama and many other states have since passed new types of restrictive voting laws that those who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King fought so hard to overcome.
...straightforward and without slant, well-reasoned and nonpartisan.
The doc doesn’t just trace the history of black disenfranchisement, it’s engaged in the now."
...a stunning job of connecting the struggle of the 1960's civil rights movement with today's struggle for all people to have the unfettered right to vote.
- David Goodman, brother of Andrew Goodman and President of the Andrew Goodman Foundation
