Educate yourself about systemic racism and police brutality in America, starting with these films and documentaries.
tells the story of a group of young Black girls, between the ages of 11 and 14, who died at the hands of white supremacists that planted a bomb in their church in 1963. At the time, KKK bombings were a regular occurrence in Birmingham, Alabama, though this incident drew Martin Luther King Jr. to the town to speak at the girls’ funeral and to lead a demonstration in its wake.
LBJ refuses to acquiesce and MLK leaves for Selma, where he leads protests in the heart of George Wallace’s Alabama. Thanks to national media coverage, white America finally sees the state-sanctioned barbarity used by police forces against peaceful protesters of all ages and the outcry ties the president’s hands. The film ends with LBJ finally striking down barriers to voting at federal, state and local levels; he signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 five months later, with MLK by his side.
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