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Answering the call [digital videodisc] / director and producer, Brian Jenkins.

[San Diego, California] : Riot House, [2016]

United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

African Americans -- Suffrage -- United States.

Minorities -- Suffrage -- United States.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Racism -- United States.

1 videodisc (76 min.) : color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

"Fifty one years ago, the nation watched in horror as bloody images of police attacks on civil rights protestors in Selma, Alabama aired on television. John Witeck was a sophomore at the University of Virginia when he saw the graphic coverage of Bloody Sunday, and when Dr. King called for supporters to travel to Selma to march for justice he packed his bags and journeyed south. Fifty one years later, John and his nephew Brian Jenkins (Director) traveled back to Alabama to document John's story of Selma, the fight for voting rights, and the evolution of the Voting Rights Act; the law that prevented voting discrimination and protected every American. In 2013, this monumental protection for all Americans earned by the blood of heroized civil rights advocates was struck down by the Supreme Court. Alabama and many other states have since passed new types of restrictive voting laws that those who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought so hard to overcome."--Container.

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