Selma

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.

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  Ava DuVernay

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  David Oyelowo
  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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  Carmen Ejogo
  Coretta Scott King
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  Tom Wilkinson
  President Lyndon B. Johnson
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  Giovanni Ribisi
  Lee White
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  Tim Roth
  Gov. George Wallace
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  André Holland
  Andrew Young
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  Colman Domingo
  Ralph Abernathy
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  Common
  James Bevel
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  Stephan James
  John Lewis
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  Omar J. Dorsey
  James Orange
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  LaKeith Stanfield
  Jimmie Lee Jackson
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  Oprah Winfrey
  Annie Lee Cooper
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  Tessa Thompson
  Diane Nash
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  Cuba Gooding Jr.
  Fred Gray
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  Ruben Santiago-Hudson
  Bayard Rustin
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  Kent Faulcon
  Sullivan Jackson
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  Lorraine Toussaint
  Amelia Boynton
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  Alessandro Nivola
  John Doar
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  David Dwyer
  Chief Wilson Baker
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  E. Roger Mitchell
  Frederick Reese