'Selma': Movie Analysis

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Selma, a recently released movie in December 2014, focuses on the passing on the right for African Americans to vote. Predominantly, the movie focuses on the couple months of hardship Martha Luther King experienced trying to pass the right to vote for African Americans, starting in a town known as Selma. In one of the opening scenes in the movie, a middle age lady went several times to register to vote and was denied, each time by a white male because of the color of her skin. Although many of the questions she was asked, were answered correctly, that did not affect the outcome. It was the march from Selma to Montgomery that pushed President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Acts of 1965. The movie has many parallels with Chapter 3 which discusses …show more content…
He had to overcome many barriers, one big barrier was the violent acts that many whites committed. Martha Luther King was against violent acts and to portray his messages that he wanted to get across was a barrier he had jump over. In the end, even after the many violent acts; such as when they were attacked by a group of white police men where many were brutally beaten. No matter the hardships, negative impacts, violent crimes, or stressors, even the death of one of there leaders Malcom X, Martha Luther King promised, “we will get what you were deny; we will take their power” 55 mins) indicating, nothing was going to stop in during this movement and the right to vote for African Americans was going to be passed. In the world of social work, the African American who are the victims that have faced problems can be seen as the deviants. The realm of social work would cause no labeling of abnormal and normal and would also restore client systems (Heer Slide 13). The three client systems, microlevel, mezzolevel, and macrolevel, all three can be seen within the
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