This weekend is the 50th anniversary of the Selma events known as “Bloody Sunday”that led to passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Here are a few related resources that educators might find useful.

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Here are resources specifically focused on Selma:

Maureen Dowd’s clueless white gaze: What’s really behind the “Selma” backlash is from Salon.

Ten Things You Should Know About Selma Before You See the Film is from Common Dreams.

Two New Useful Videos On Justice, Race & Cultural Identity

How ‘Selma’ Diminishes Dr. King is also from Politico.

‘Selma’ Ignores the Radical Grassroots Politics of the Civil Rights Movement is from The New Republic.

Teach About Selma is from Teaching For Change.

Front Page History: Teaching About Selma Using Original Times Reporting is from The New York Times Learning Network.

Teaching Tolerance is offering a free documentary on the Selma-to-Montgomery march — a perfect follow-up to watching the Oscar-nominated “Selma” film.

The free-to-teachers kit includes:

  • The documentary, Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot (40 minutes);
  • viewer’s guide to help you plan how you’ll teach about the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and voting issues today;
  • A timeline of activities and events leading up to and following the marches;
  • A map of Alabama illustrated with locations significant to the voting rights struggle.

Teaching Tolerance also offers free related web resources.

The Associated Press has a Selma interactive.

Echoes of Selma is CNN’s interactive site.

 

Video, Transcript & Excerpts From President Obama’s Extraordinary Selma Speech

Here is how Teaching Tolerance describes its new resource, Selma Online:

Selma Online is a new resource we developed with Harvard’s Hutchins Center and Left Field Labs, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. The online platform uses scenes from the film Selma directed by Ava DuVernay and offers educators an innovative, interactive resource to teach the history of the civil rights movement and the ongoing fight for voting rights.

Learn more about it in their article, ‘Selma Online’: Young People Impact the Vote.

VIDEO: JOHN LEWIS AT 55TH ANNIVERSARY OF SELMA MARCH