Bloody Sunday 1965 Selma, Alabama

[leeleonor1]

i am against all repression and injustice to any human, race, ethnicity, I do child abuse against CPS, DCF, Welfare and let say racist are alive and thriving. But our history is that we must remind the HILL r Corporations who is WE THE PEOPLE, What was done the my brother and sister in history is without words. And to me Dr. King was angel. As He knew the Out come. Put do not think anyone goes out with an agenda and crosses of what will happen. Protesting and a gift of surprise. R,I,P,

[maceocean01]

 I like the song and the video thank you

[MartyMuffins11]

who is speaking at the beginning and the end?

[PsychoticPrplFlower]

@MartyMuffins11 John Lewis (now a congressman in Georgia) is speaking at the beginning and President Johnson is speaking at the end.

[APMusic4Life]

I Am Upset..........This is the absolute worst combination of music to put to those symbolic pictures of HISTORY!!! BLOODY SUNDAY was day of much sorrow, pain, bruising, and beatings......I almost feel offended!!! Do you ppl really know what my ppl were getting beaten and bruised for?

[PsychoticPrplFlower]

@APMusic4Life sorry if it offended you, but yes I do actually know what they were marching for that day, and it wasn't just YOUR people it was ALL people.  "If my brother or sister isn't free then I'm not free so I'm fighting for my own freedom" I know and am good friend with many people who participated in the march that day and they're very grateful for this video and the awareness it raises. The song and video were created as a form of activism to educate & raise awareness.

[squirrelaugh]

Those students, were they Sojourn students?

[PsychoticPrplFlower]

@squirrelaugh yup =] I take it you were a Sojourn student?

[facestomp88]

So when are native americans going to get equal treatment?

[Reblon100]

how can i make kids understaand about this ? they don't get it i guess they dont care about history who know affects their futuere

[prohoods210]

now i know y people hate america were assholes

[nezpercenathan]

I wonder how many people remember that Gov. George Wallace was a Democrat? Ran for president with the AIP, but as Gov., was a Democrat. Just an observation.

[cozella]

@nezpercenathan These Democrats became Republicans after Nixon ran his Southern Stratgey. And Lyndon B. Johnson a DEMOCRAT was responsible for getting passed the Civil Rights Legistlation. There you have it.

[nezpercenathan]

@cozella Johnson had NOTHING, utterly NOTHING, to do with this bill, except that he did not veto it. The "Southern Bloc" of Democrats and ONE Republican filibustered against it, until Republican Sen. Dirkson, IL, came up with a new version which he and 3 other senators felt could pass. Byrd alone filibustered against the original bill for nearly a day. Johnson WAS responsible for massive expansion welfare and giveaway programs, after which he said "No nigger will ever vote Republican again."

[cozella]

@nezpercenathan Johnson could have VETOED the legislation and the Welfare programs were and still ARE needed because BIG BUSINESS and their Republican handmaidens keep moving jobs away from areas where minorities and the poor live.

Blacks voted republican because of Abraham Lincoln they vote Democratic because of Lyndon B. Johnson.

It has always been a game of pitting the HAVE SOME against the HAVE NOTS. The HAVE SOME are learning they too can easily become HAVE NOTS based on economic policy

[nezpercenathan]

@cozella BTW- My original point, that Wallace was a Democrat, remains true. He ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 1976, but lost the nomination early on to the evangelical Jimmy Carter. George Wallace was still a Democrat when he died in 1998, and had been all of his political career, except for the brief period when he formed the AIP.

[cozella]

@nezpercenathan Wallace announced that he was a born-again Christian in the late 1970s, and apologized to black civil rights leaders for his earlier segregationist views. He said that while he had once sought power and glory, he realized he needed to seek love and forgiveness.[note 3] In 1979, as blacks began voting in large numbers in Alabama, Wallace said of his stand in the schoolhouse door: "I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over."[ Wikipedia]

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[observingworld]

Well put together

[av8tor17b]

Remember.

[prichardmark420]

while we have made some strides, we still have a long way to go. Don't ever ask me to fill-out forms indicating my "RACE". For it is THE HUMAN RACE. we all are trying to run.

[pumasporvida]

Sometimes it takes something negative to happen in order for something positive to be realized for a lifetime.

[zenbrenzz]

I was stationed at Gunter AFB in Montgomery in 1965, I am caucasian but all us girls were best of friends (in the Air Force, one rule: You are all ONE race, human) We were refused service in restaurants off base, appalling us all..here we were, US servicewomen in the service of defending America.

Those ignorant rednecks helped to shape my character...Thanks, Alabama.

[maccorsi]

Nice work! Keep posting stuff it's been seen almost 10,000 times - making a difference.

[Neonectria]

1965... it is not that long ago eh? Tomorrow Barack Obama will become the 56th president of the United States; things, albeit very slowly, are changing.

[meddetect10]

Free at last... I'm so glad it isn't like this anymore!

[nezpercenathan]

@Neonectria 44th President of The United States, not 56th.

[ItialianMonkie]

whos this song from?

[PsychoticPrplFlower]

@ItialianMonkie A CA teacher named Ashley Gray

[devioushoney]

What is the song actually called?

[roslynhines]

AMERICA WAKE UP,....WHAT R ER GOING TO DO?Perhaps just as importantly, we need to remind people of the desperate lives of African Americans in Alabama's 7th Congressional District. I live here, and I know the poverty. As a white person, I can say the racism, while still endemic, is better, but the poverty is still getting worse. It seems as if Montgomery and Washington both would prefer to forget about us.

[365degrees]

A story about a woman(WHITE) who was killed by the KKK down there to march and help organize.The gunmen(KKK).If anybody knows of this woman, her name, please write me ...One of the gunmen was a government employee.There is a church with maybe some kind of monument where she was murdered off the highway.GOD BLESS US ALL.

[roslynhines]

MaryLiuzzoLilleboeThese images moved my Mother to go and participate with 25,000 patriotic Americans in Dr. King's march for the vote. My mom was shuttling marchers back to Selma from Montgomery. It was night, she had a 19 year old young black maan from Selma. On the lonely hwy 80 she was chased, overtaken by a car full of klansman and shot twice in the head - killing her. Thanks again - this is a beautiful piece of work. Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, Viola Liuzzo's daughter.

[lchs03]

The white woman you are referring to name was Viola Liuzzo. She was residing in Michigan during the time she was murdered. She came to Alalbama to participate in the march from Selma, Alabama.

[MaryLiuzzoLilleboe]

Wonderful video and music. These images moved my Mother to go and participate with 25,000 patriotic Americans in Dr. King's march for the vote. My mom was shuttling marchers back to Selma from Montgomery. It was night, she had a 19 year old young black maan from Selma. On the lonely hwy 80 she was chased, overtaken by a car full of klansman and shot twice in the head - killing her. Thanks again - this is a beautiful piece of work. Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, Viola Liuzzo's daughter.

[roslynhines]

mary i commend your mother for her bravery and courage. It saddens me to hear of what then did to her,

[FrankRabbit600]

Just saw this in school. Great video. Surprised barely anyone has posted. Ironic, back then the black's fought to vote, and now there is a black president. Heh.

[VelvetGirl92]

Alabama?

[rolltide872]

I live in Selma,and I'm very glad that you posted this video,there are still some people in Selma that are living in the 60's and it makes me so angry! I just want to thank you again

[DylanSprouseluva23]

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[jiedlin]

i was there yesterday

[colincoby]

R.I.P Rev. Orange. Thank you for all that you did in Selma in 1965. Peace.

[mxmikol]

Thank you so much for posting this video. I so admire the bravery of those marchers. What they endured to wake up a nation and encourage it to live up to its ideals. Powerful stuff indeed. Thank you!

[wade01976]

Thank you for this excellent video calling attention to this. Perhaps just as importantly, we need to remind people of the desperate lives of African Americans in Alabama's 7th Congressional District. I live here, and I know the poverty. As a white person, I can say the racism, while still endemic, is better, but the poverty is still getting worse. It seems as if Montgomery and Washington both would prefer to forget about us.