Wednesday, January 28, 2015

On Seeing "Selma"

Makes me think of growing up in Alabama in the 1950's and 60's and being basically unaware of what was going on in the civil rights movement.  I have no memories of the church bombings and the march in Birmingham in 1963.  I do remember the '64 civil rights bill passing but I do not remember the '65 voting rights bill passing.  I don't remember Bloody Sunday on  the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965.  It's not that I wasn't interested in current events.  It's a function of growing up in a small town with no cable TV and no internet like today.  I doubt that there were headlines in The Birmingham News.  So sad.  Such blanks in my memory.

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