A WEEK IN SELMA WALKING THROUGH HISTORY
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A WEEK IN SELMA WALKING THROUGH HISTORY
Working on a documentary focused on the legacy of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Memorial for Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists outside the Brown Chapel AME Church.
With historian Sam Walker at the National Voting Rights Museum & Institute.
Construction site in Selma, Alabama.
LIFE magazine March 19, 1965.
Director of photography Henry Abebonojo shooting the roof.
Been in Selma working on a documentary about the legacy of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by focusing on a home that was home base for Dr. King during that campaign. The house itself is being moved from Selma to a museum in Michigan. There are a lot of pieces to this story to juggle - past, present and future - that I’m still refining, but it’s been inspiring to be in a place of such importance, a place also haunted by the unfulfilled potential of this nation. As the project developes I’ll share more images from the process.