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The Shadow of Selma (Hardcover)
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The Shadow of Selma (Hardcover)
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The Shadow of Selma provides a comprehensive assessment of the 1965
civil rights campaign, the historical memory of the marches, and
the continuing relevance of and challenges to the Voting Rights
Act. The essays consider Selma not just as a keystone event but,
much like Ferguson today, a transformative place: a supposedly
unimportant location that became the focal point of epochal
historical events. Contributors to this innovative volume examine
the relationship between the memorable figures of the
campaign?Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, among others?and
the thousands of other unheralded people who also crossed the
Edmund Pettus Bridge on their way from Selma to Montgomery. They
analyze networks that undergirded as well as opposed the movement,
placing it in broader historical, political, and international
contexts. Addressing the influential role of media representations
from contemporary newspaper and television coverage to the 2014
Hollywood film by Ava DuVernay, several of the essays challenge the
redemptive narrative that has shaped popular memory, one that
glosses over ongoing racial problems. Finally, the volume explores
the fifty-year legacy of the Voting Rights Act, with particular
focus on Shelby County vs. Holder, which in 2013 seemed to suggest
that the Act had solved the disfranchisement problems of the civil
rights era and was outdated. Taken together, the essays argue that
while today the obstacles to racial equality may look different
than a literacy test or a grim-faced Alabama State Trooper, they
are no less real.
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