sunday, we brought it back to selma. we shot "selma" with real extras from selma.he people that walk across the bridge when he see the film are from that area. we did not ship in hollywood extras. we's people who live there -- we asked people who live there to reopen this wound. >> had some marched 50 years ago? >> there were some survivors there. to bring the film back to them, and to do this commemorative march from the city hall to the bridge, and then have john legend sing "bridge over troubled waters" at sunset over the water of the alabama river and for common and legend as the "glory," it was more than spectacle. it felt like a rallying call called action for people in the community, call to the refreshment of their intention to let some of the more than something that is locked in the past but legacy that really drives them forward. >> so what do you hope will happen with this film now? in new york, kids from nine to 13 or whatever, were able to go to the film and whatever movie theater to see it for free? >> yes, that is how it started. 27 black business o

infected or the sponsor of the moratorium of the central plan area this project is no the in the central selma area the second zone highly produced area is no subject to pdr measures we've benefit lvns to the commission very careful and the developing censures skefrnz of the commission as a result we're maintaining a ground floor of pdr as part of the project that's 14 thousand 5 hundred square feet of pdr square space swore been working to identify the pdr tenants it is not easy but we did identify two, that will occupy the balance of the space the first one is an electronic car charging company they work with retailers and malls and local governments to small electric cars stations for free getting paid by the advertising on the car and they'll be conducting those on site and have a schoerl showroom to represent tare products and the rest of the space will be right now, we're working with a wine wholesaler that will be connecting the wine industry and the commercial storage of wine for over flow and possible educational opportunity for folks in winemaking i also want to mention that keeping

good day to you from selma. as you know in civil rights history, selma is special. and a special screening of the film happened behind me. oprah, one of the producers of the film was here and so was the man who plays dr. king in the movie. along with those 2,000 others who descended to be close to where history happened nearly 50 years ago. again, they came to selma by the thousands, toting signs and singing anthems of the movement. sunday's march ended with a concert on the same bridge where our national consciousness was rattled in the spring of 1965. three marches from selma to montgomery to make the case for voting rights laid bear shocking brutality, two weeks after the last march dr. martin luther king appeared on the press knowing a page had turned. >> i think it was the most dramatic civil rights protest that has ever taken place in the south. >> and for those parents who were not alive in 1965 sell paw shines a light on their history and home town. >> that's mazing with just one movie about a certain situation can do. >> reporter: hundreds showed up for a s

you will and what remains of the s l r i like 63 reading to maintain 60 percent but not only east selma and the district to otherwise maintain 25 percent of a converted building as pdr i know over the long term and for assembly approach the flower mart will maintain one half p a million square feet that's an outstanding accomplishment for the long-term now there are some issues to figure out in the central selma plan the relocation xofts for the businesses that can't return needs to be addressed i know that staff is aware of that and especially the loss of space for arts organizations is a critical problem that the south of market arts community is being decimated the people can't afford the mandating for pdr we need to clearly fourth a system of direct or indirect subsidize of art spaces in the context of the pdr preservation in selma this is a good step there's a long way to go from here but this is a good step thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm alice rogers i'm here as a member of the south beach mission bay retail task force we talked to you a couple of weeks ago i'm basically here t

selma was a win, and selma is still winning.bridge there would be no jimmy carter as president, no bill clinton, no barack obama. for those that said nothing has changed, i just say come walk in my shoes. america is a different america because of selma. we're a better people. we're not there yet, but we're on our way. >> when you say come walk in my shoes, it's so important because of the violence you faced and endured. how can we learn from that and then have new kinds of violence. how do we not just say nothing has changed, but keep pushing forward. >> we have to be consistent and persistent. selma reminds us that if you keep the faith, you keep pushing, you keep pulling, you will have a victory. i have seen it i see it every day. that is one reason i go back to selma every year and take members of congress to convince them, to urge them that you, too, can get out there and make things different with your votes. >> one of the most powerful scenes in the movie is when the young actor, playing you in your youth, is in the car wi

it was in selma. selma. in selma. >> selma. >> it's -- it was a religious school. it was baptist. [ inaudible question ] well, it was just -- at that time it was founded -- my mother went to that high school. >> selma university is where fred shuttlesworth also graduated. >> yeah, and his wife. mm-hmm. >> yeah. >> it's very prestigious school back in those days. teachers were very well educated, and as i said before, they taught for the love of teaching because they certainly were not paid that much. but they were excellent teachers, excellent, well, well trained. and they had a broad vision of the world. so those kind of things were instilled in us, that you could be bigger and you could be anybody you wanted to be. and they -- you know, they were strict. you had to do. you had to learn. and i thank god for that -- for those experiences. >> was it a boarding school? >> it was a boarding school, yeah. >> and you were there through grammar and elementary -- >> uh-huh. i entered at 5 years of age. >> i wanted to follow up on the question of how did it feel coming bac

first all, why selma? guest: selma is important because it is an effort for voting rights.wasn't just in one particular place, but in city after city and state after state, there had been efforts to push the voting rights. the student non-violent coordinating committee, the young wing of the civil rights movement had went to selma and had been there for quite awhile. and so there was already an effort there to move the agenda around voting rights. and some had experienced activists, people who were in many different ways capable of mobilizing and capable of getting people out in the streets. so when so it'sie he willsy wanted to help accelerate that, selma stuck out. also, as we get into it, corette corettea scott king had a relationship. she was from a nearby town marion she knew people there in selma. so selma was ripe in many ways. and they had a police chief who, like bill conner in birmingham was brutal and would be potentially someone who would accelerate the images of the brutality of segregation. so for a number of different reasons, king and sclc leadership decided

selma is currently on its second african-american mayor. i represent selma in congress.o before we sleep. i think that the reality is that the progress is always illusive and we must be ever vigilant in trying to get the voting rights amendment act passed from congress. my hope is that people will go to the movie selma and see the movie and feel recommitted and rededicate their lives to the fight for civil and voting rights. it is not over yet. >> and you are now in congress where you have one of 435 votes in that body. do you foresee, just having your initial talks and discussions with members in your own party and also on the other side of the aisle, is there a chance to the fix of the voting rights going through the house, in your opinion? >> well i hope so. i think being the 50th commemoration year 2015 seems to be the ideal year to try to do something to fix the voting rights act. so i know that the commitment is on the cbc's agenda and the democratic caucus agenda and i've talked to members on the other side of the aisle and there are those that are committed to th

this time for the movie "selma," which she directed. film chronicles the three-month period in 1965 leading up to the passage of the voting rights act. before we start our conversation, a look at a scene from "selma." >> as long as i am unable to exercise my constitutional right to vote, i do not have commanof my own life. i cannot determine my destiny. it is determined by people who would rather see me suffer than succeed. those that have gone before us say no more -- >> no more! >> no more -- >> no more m. >> that means protest that means march that means disturb the peace that means jail, that means risk, and that is hard. we will not wait any longer. give us the vote! >> no more! >> we're not asking. we're demanding. give us the vote! >> give us the vote! >> i want to first say congratulations. i want to start right there, congratulations. you know my regard for dr. king. i regard him personally as the greatest american we perhaps have ever produced. certainly he's -- not going to debate on that. certainly there's no debate about th

in his history book but didn't learn about selma. >> i didn't know what selma was. >> the problem accordingwoman. who believes every middle school student in the bay area should see the movie. >> this generation it is a little removed. it's important that they understand the importance of the movement and what happened. >> reporter: this movement is called # selma for students. washington is partnering with business men and women around the country to raise thousand of dollars to pay for tickets so 7th. 8th. 9th graders can see selma for free at participating theaters. >> our gl in theoal in the bay area between now, today, and martin luther king day, january 19th. to get as many tine see the movie as possible. >> the movement started in new york. 70,000 students. the goal in the bay area to get a free ticket in the hand of 15,000 students. jim geemy edward says selma may not be his first choice at the theater but plans to see the movie. because he says it will give him a good history lesson about what his relatives went through. >> if it wasn't for him. it would be the same predicament lik

"selma" for me is great art. screenplay, which is not nominated for a golden globe, but then i almost always have quibbles, or more often very harsh criticisms of screenplays. the rarest thing in hollywood is for a writer like me to walk out of a movie theatre and say i wouldn't change a word of that script. it happens to me about once every other year or so. but i have never known many screenwriters to actually agree very much on exactly which scripts they wouldn't change. if my experience, people in the business, writers, actors, directors dislike more movies and more tv shows more intensely than the general public ever will, but we want to love them. we want to have that experience you can only have in a dark theatre locked in the grip of a movie. i had that watching "selma" which ended with the biggest and longest standing ovation i have ever experienced in a theatre. it ended with most of the 1,000 new yorkers in the ziegfeld theatre crying. you owe yourself the experience of watching "selma" and when it's o

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it. >> it's kind of amazing to have the movie in selma.nd it's 50th anniversary in civil rights. >> reporter: for annie pearl avery and the thousands of others who risked so much, this anniversary is not so much about the box office but more about the freedoms they fought for and won. >>> questions about accuracy is one controversy, the other is its lack of oscar nominations. our next guest says the snub reflects a larger problem in hollywood that he calls shameful. you say shameful what do you mean? >> well i think we can't exactly put our finger blame on the nominations, but an entire industry that doesn't hire women, hispanics or african-americans in this enormously lucrative industry. if the image isn't produced by the same sort of patch work that makes up the country it is is going to be a very flawed image. >> the depiction of lyndon johnson and some of the inaccuracies there, may have contributed to the subs. any truth to that? >> you never know. these people all fancy themselves movie experts and vote as they wish. each of the smal

stroll across the edmond pettus brimming in selma. when she set off on a peaceful march here back in 1965, it was a starkly different scene. protesters fighting for the right to vote were met by armed police. dozens were badly 30 and annie, not for the first time, was arrested. >> our real heroes are the people who died you could have gotten killed but i am just saying i think it was a small contribution that i paid because other people paid more. >> we actually have people walking in off of the streets and find themselves. >> what happened in selma during the 60s is deeply engrained in this community every year thousands come here to mark protests that led to one of the most important pieces of lemmingislation in u.s. history. just months after maz were led by dr. martin luther king the voting rights act was passed. >> the voting rights act in selma was a movement that changed the course of history, but this country and for the world. >> those monumental changes are the subject of a new film which has upset some. critics say presiden

. >>> and living history in selma. the children and grandchildren of the men and women who marched with the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. and the towering legacy so alive today. "nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. first there was the massacre in paris followed by the manhunt and the massive show of mourning. now we are seeing something different. it can fairly be described as a backlash and public anger in a growing number of cities in the muslim world. and it's sparking fears that we may be close to something of a turning point in what started after all with the publication of political cartoons. it's where we begin tonight with our chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. any major terrorist attack has the potential at least of bringing the world together. it did not happen this time. there have been protests at times deadly clashes in at least ten

hundreds of people including oprah and stars of the movie "selma" recreated dr. king's historic march. up next talk with the first african-american woman elected to congress from alabama who represents selma. >>> and president obama preparing for tomorrow's state of the union address. we will look at his plan to increase taxes on the rich and extend tax benefits to the middle class. >>> as the supreme court announced, it will make a decision on same-sex marriage. i will talk live with the nba's first openly gay player jason collins, about his role as nba cares ambassador promoting tolerance and inclusion. join the conversation. so many of you already joined us. find my team at "newsnation." find me on facebook twitter, instagram under my name. music: melodic, calm music. don't miss the princess cruises 50th anniversary sale. our biggest sale ever. save up to $500 per person. everywhere we sail... ... all around the world. call your travel consultant, or 1-800-princess. princess cruises. come back new. don't settle for 4g lte coverage that's smaller or less reliab

reporter: it's morning in selma and kids walking to school in the shadow of history.s birthday proud he was once here. >> he would think, oh, selma is a little place. it's not very big, but the size really doesn't matter. >> reporter: they predominantly black city of 2,000 is quiet now and struggling economically but rich with the lesson of how people marched for change. nearly 50 years ago, as they crossed selma's edmund pettus bridge for the right to vote people were beaten by police in what became known as bloody sunday. joann bland was there just 11 years old. >> people lay everywhere bleeding not moving. the screams over and over. >> terrence's grandfather also marched. >> they came in with dogs and put him in jail for four days. >> reporter: he's one of a group of students we spoke with at grantly elementary. they have dreams of their own. >> when i grow up i want to be a detective. >> i want to be a teacher. >> i would like to be a doctor. >> but they are also concerned. >> i'm not going to let you talk. >> sixth-grader elise may is sometimes scared about the w

you are right about the selma thing. after bloody sunday when the march resumed, johnson sent troops. we nationalize the guard to protect the marchers. my instruction was to send memos to the white house every two hours about those marchers. you can read them. they are on the lbj library tapes. every two hours, where they were, how far they had gotten. i sent them to jack who would bring them into the president. he was so focused on selma and on that march working. it was really quite remarkable. >> one of the things people forget is how many things were cheek by jowl -- senator kennedy was in the plane crash on the night the senate passed the bill. your head spins at all the things the president is dealing with. it was remarkable how unwilling president johnson was for such a famous wheeler and dealer to wheel and deal. he was sent away in 20 minutes empty-handed. there was a marvelous exchange on the tapes wear johnson tells humphrey, i am against these amendments. i am going to be against them right up until i sign th

and a powerful trip back to that bridge in selma a bit later here. but first, another dangerous night on american highways. it's been a deadly 24 hours.ways coated in sheets of ice. take another look at this. that tractor trailer jackknifing there. that's interstate i-95 in new jersey. can you see it through the back window of the car, going straight across the barrier, landing on the other side of the interstate. the white knuckle moments playing out from the west coast all the way to the east. these cars spinning as they approach a toll booth. emergency ginger zee with the new storm coming but first, abc's gio benitez on the harrowing drive. >> reporter: tonight, a new round of icy conditions for millions on their commute home. more deadly crashes in vermont and maine. this propane truck hit a car and killed its driver. a 45-year-old woman. at least eight people killed in crashes. more than 500 accidents from the mid-atlantic to new england. and that harrowing near miss on the new jersey turnpike. the camera rolling as a tractor trailer skids out o

king in the film "selma". >> she was an american hero but he didn't walk around in his life thinking i am an hero, i am an icon, i am a historical figure, he was a a man with flaws, with failings, with weaknesses with transcendent qualities as well but where i connected with him is, you know, he is man of faith, i am a man of faith i am a father of four, he was a father of four. and these were my entry points. he lived a life of not just talking about it but actually doing it. >> rose: we conclude this evening with jessica class stain and oscar isaac talking about their most recent first a most violent year. >> there was, you know, when i got the script the documentary .. i don't know if you saw it the documentary that came out. >> rose: right. >> an it was fresh in my mind and i read the script and i sat down with jc and has a four-hour lump and i said, i know it is off the wall but to me he is not the wife,? he is dick cheney and she in this -- he is the face of the partnership, this is going to sound terrible but in her eyes he is the brain of it and he is going to do the dirty st

but i would encourage people to go and see "selma."s certainly a film that i think is going to encourage people in this country to finally start having some real and honest talk about race and race relations. that hopefully will be the outcome of this film. >> doug people criticizing it a lot of them are people who used to work for lyndon johnson or historians. one johnson aide went to "the washington post" and said that selma was lbj's idea. that's a little much isn't it? >> that's a little much. look, martin luther king deserves all the credit. he brought the fight to alabama, whether it's the montgomery busboy situation or the fight in birmingham this is king's movie and king's show. i think the controversy is it makes lbj seem like the one that's putting the fbi in the early '60s on king when it was bobby kennedy, the attorney general who did it. we're in a tough field in history looking for factual accuracy. seems to me with so much at stake in a wonderful film like this that some of that could have been corrected. you could go on

if you believe all are created equal, come to selma. join us. join our march against injustice and inhumanity. >> ifill: but "selma" has also sparked controversy, particularly for its portrayal of president lyndon johnson's sometimes prickly relationship with king, who is treated here as more tactician than theologian. >> we need your help. >> dr. king, this thing is just going to have to wait. >> it can't wait. >> ifill: former johnson aide joseph califano said no one should see the film. and the head of the l.b.j. presidential library said the portrayal "flies in the face of history." mark updegrove appeared on cbs news' "face the nation." >> you don't quite see how productive that partnership was and how it came to bear on our getting voting rights in this country. >> ifill: the bulk of the film, however, brings to life the force and brutality of the resistance to the movement, as well as the heroism of activists like now-congressman john lewis, who was severely injured on bloody sunday, the first of the three marches across selma's edmund pe

glenneda, the good witch of "selma." she came on board and everything just kind of started to vibrate with an energy and they then a real -- a real just a thrust a momentum of proceedpulsion that she brought to the project. when she came on board >> everything took off. it was an amazing group of producers who were around the project early on. but it had -- it had hit a point where it needed fresh air, fresh energy and she provided that. rose: did she want to be in the film, or was that your idea? >> she did not want to be in the film. rose: i didn't think so so. >> i mean she really didn't want to be in the film. she wanted it -- rose: she had been in "the butler"? >> she is so gracious a lot of times when she is around, the spotlight goes to her and she didn't want that to be the case for the film. she wanted it the spotlight to be on the people in the movement, the leaders that we were amplifying. i think that was one of the issues for her. but then, also rightly so in every movie she is in, she is hitting someone. an

>> i knew that things were wrong in selma.unday. >> hours of later clark olson heard the call. >> may be some tear gas ahead. >> martin luther king jr. asked the nation's ministers black and white to join him in selma for a march to montgomery, the state's capital. it was not just a show of unity king knew that the white ministers would put more pressure on president johnson though no one could have predicted what came next. >> you are ordered to stop, stand where you are. >> is it hard for you to be here now? >> i've gotten used to it. i've been back here a number of times and i've gotten used to it. but there still is within me that old terror. >> nearly 50 years after bloody sunday, we walked with clark olson. on the block that changed his life. >> this is walker's cafe. >> olson joined two other white ministers, orlotf miller and james reed for a quick meal. >> the place is jam packed. i guess they ran out of everything you about chicken fried chicken by the time we got there. >> they found themselves surrounded by white a

king was in selma, alabama for what would be known as the beginning of the selma marches. in what place does selma occupy its place in the civil rights movement? guest: i think it was really important because it was some thing specific for a specific reason that we can relate to that reminds those of us who were living and remember that so well. we still have a lot to do. we have overcome a great deal of an obstacle because of that march. i'm able to vote. i'm able to serve in congress. there were people before me. i served with one of the people that was in that march. the honorable john lewis. there was a young man who is determined to be help during that time. i'm very proud to serve with him. host: that march is captured in a movie in theaters now. "selma." there are some questions surrounding the relationships between lyndon johnson and mlk. what was their relationship like around the time of selma? lbj was coming from your home state of texas. guest: i have great respect for lbj, just as i've respect for martin luther king. they could not have been done without both

many people in selma were excited to pay tribute to the history of selma, a alabama superintendent shut down a high school's question to see the film last week because it had profanity and derogatory references to african-americans. he said i'm eliminating the decision to use taxpayer money to see something with filthy language. one parent thinks there is more to it. >> it raises my curiosity as to whether there is something that they are not wanting exposed, or the children not to know about. i don't belief it is just about the profanity. >> hundreds of thousands of other students got to see the oscar nominated film for free. it started by african-american business leaders and it spread to students that only had to show their student i.d. or report card to get free movie tickets. about two dozen cities participated in hashtag selma for students. joining me now is trymaine lee. it is amazing to me the kind of movement, it that is the right word, or cultural force grown up around this film that feels much bigger. >> happy robert e. lee day. >> so when i talk to some of these business exe

thank god almighty we are free at last. >> there is a film called "selma." it tells the story of the selma to montgomery march. david oyelowo stars as martin luther king. he spoke about the challenges of inviting a legendary figure. -- embodying a legendary figure. >> detroit. new york. los angeles. large-scale unrest and sympathy marches. >> i'm very aware of that. what i do know is he is nonviolent. >> what is martin luther king about to do next? >> mr. president, dr. king is here. >> mr. president come in the south there have been thousands of racial murders. we need to help dr. king. >> it cannot wait. >> selma it is. >> here is the next great battle. >> dr. king. >> i tell you, that white boy can hit. >> it is unacceptable that they abuse their power to keep us voiceless. no more. >> they are going to kill our children. >> enough is enough. >> we must march. we must stand up. >> it is going to be open season. >> may i have a word? >> there is no words to be had. ♪ the people ♪ ♪ the people ♪ >> star 70 million people watching. these pictures are going a

you can never remember "selma," and forget the bridge. and heads north to montgomery, the first steps of the last long journey in the fight against jim crow began. >> and here, a local woman barely known outside her alabama hometown, became the image of blooddy sunday, seen around the word. >> today amelia is 103 but she clearly recalls the terror that day. >> as officers try to stop the marchers to their right to vote. >> beating them with sticks, with billy clubs. anything they had. on the bridge over the river, amelia was one of hundreds to face brutal forces of a renegade sheriff. finally he hit me, and on my neck the back of my shoulder, and it hurt, put i didn't foe what to do. i had no idea what i should do. the second hit fell to me, and i fell to the ground. that i was unconscious. >> even then, the torture didn't end. an officer muched tier gas into her eyes and mouth. >> and somebody came and stood there and said trooper there's somebody dead over there. >> but appeal yeah boynton didn't die. this is the never been published em

middle school students can see the movie "selma" for free. and that is the idea of #sellma for students. >> he started the civil rights movement. >> he wrote i have a dream. >> and the dream that is portrayed this the big screen in the movie "sellma." >> we must march. we must stand up. >> reporter: a movie about civil rights movement, and history and something that most middle schoolchildren don't have anything about. >> i thought it was about an indian dude. >> reporter: elijah corpus saw it with his friends. he has seen him in the history weeks, but he had not learned about sellma. >> and that is a problem, and that is why they believe that every student should see this movie. >> for this generation, it is removed, but it is important or the them to understand what is behind the movement. >> reporter: this is called #selma for students. they are partnering with businessmen and women around the country to raise thousands of dollars for 7th, 8th, and 9th grader s can graders can see selma for free at participating theaters. >> our goal in th

if you believe all are created equal, come to selma. to stand with us. >> bruce, what do you hope this will add to young students understanding of the man, of dr. king? >> i want them to understand that dr. king's generation was a generation of sacrifice. that they were prepared to lay their lives on the line, lose their lives in order to provide sort of the basic rights of american citizenry. i think that young people are so far removed from that era, that they don't know, and many of the freedoms that that generation made possible, these young folks don't realize the sacrifices that were made so that they can be possible. i also think that young people need to understand that society thinks activism. these folks were active. they challenged the status quo. they were long-term thinkers. they say we were sacrificed today for a better tomorrow. young people need to understand, it's not instant gratification or what can i get tomorrow, it's what should i sacrifice and work hard on so that the future for me and my children will be brighter

in selma, alabama, yesterday. oprah winfrey there, the producer of the film along with ava duberney. the march commemorated the 50th anniversary of the vote rights protest from selma, montgomery. it was called a symbol of 50 years of progress by oprah. >>> and middle school students are invited to watch "selma" today. it is called "selma for students." leaders in new york city came up with the idea earlier this month with the opportunity open top students in seventh through ninth grades. about a dozen theaters in the philadelphia area are participating. >> you have to make sure that we know our history and teach our young people our history, so that the cycle does not continue. >> today is the last day the students can watch "selma" for free. they have to show a school i.d. or report card to get in. organizers say to call the theater ahead of time to make sure there are tickets available. for more on the life of dr. martin luther king jr., log on to nbc 10 or tap on the nbc 10 app where you will find a photo galle