Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot is the story of a courageous group of Alabama students and teachers who, along with other activists, fought a nonviolent battle to win voting rights for African Americans in the South. Standing in their way, a century of Jim Crow, a resistant and segregationist state, and a federal government slow to fully embrace equality. By organizing and marching bravely in the face of intimidation, violence, arrest and even murder, these change-makers achieved one of the most significant victories of the civil rights era.
They were signing a petition to establish the 'Columbia Territory'.
One similarity between the two is that they both introduced a new way of thinking.
So they can discuss about the issues that are going on in there community and actually bring up some ideas... Even voting, like we have the right to speak up so we might as well do it. Our government doesn't run itself. We contribute to it.
