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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

Nelson George
Nov 11, 2023
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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.

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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.

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