The penultimate film of the Largs Film Society season is Selma (2014).
In 1964, Dr Martin Luther King Jr. accepts his Nobel Peace Prize; four black girls walking down stairs in the Birmingham Baptist Church are killed by a bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan; Annie Lee Cooper attempts to register to vote in Selma, Alabama but is prevented by the white registrar. King meets with Lyndon B. Johnson and asks for federal legislation to allow black citizens to register to vote unencumbered, and the president responds that he has more important projects. Selma is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Martin Luther King led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement.
The show takes place on Friday March 23.
Membership is closed for this season and will reopen at the end of July, for membership enquiries please contact membershipsecretary@largsfilmsociety.co.uk. For more information see www.largsfilmsociety.co.uk
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