Jubilee Film Festival Archive

Question: Were you a segregationist? ―I suppose so. Well, I was raised that way… We were friends to the blacks. They worked for us and we took care of them. It was—like I was told one time—it was the extension of slavery. And I never thought it as being slavery. I just thought, well, they worked for us. I mean, Selma was the greatest place in the world to live until about 1963. It was the greatest place in the world. We had blacks and whites there, and we got along with them beautifully. We had segregation and whites were not allowed to drink from…a black fountain and vice versa. But nobody thought anything about it.‖ Interviewed by Atty. Charles Bonner, a former student demonstrator from Selma, Alabama.

Preparations and highlights of the 2001 Jubilee commemorating Bloody Sunday and the 1965 Voting Rights Movement in Selma juxtaposed with some of the participants of the reenactment of the Battle of Selma fought in the last month of the Civil War, April, 1865. Directed by Melinda Holm.

The origins of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma and events of 1965 told by Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson supplemented by Miss Annie Cooper with further elaboration from white gallery owner Mr. Jerry Siegel and Selma policeman known since his March 1965 full page closeup in Life magazine as "Cigar Charlie." Directed by Melinda Holm.

HOME OF THE BRAVE is about the only white woman murdered in the civil rights movement in America and why we DON‘T know who she is. Viola Liuzzo left her home in Detroit to become one of the 25,000 who marched fifty years ago in Selma in support of voting rights. Told through the eyes of her children, the film follows the on-going struggle of an American family to survive the consequences of their mother‘s heroism and the mystery behind her killing. Directed by Paola di Florio. (2006) www.homeofthebravemovie.com

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