Ryder Strong
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In August of 1965, President Johnson did in fact sign the Voting Rights Act into law.
Cheyenne is still in Alabama and now directs a youth program for children of all races.
Rachel is also still in Alabama, and her brother was a two-term city councilman.
And now every year on the third Sunday in February, a memorial service is held in Marion for Jimmy Lee Jackson.
And Jonathan Daniels was canonized by the church in 1994.
He's now included in the calendar of saints.
There's no laugh, no laughs in this one, guys, nor should there be.
But this is an important movie that everyone should watch.
And OK, so it's difficult to find bad reviews of this movie, I'll be honest.
But when you do, it's usually involves some changes that were made for the movie.
And this is the most common and it's what we were just talking about.
I watched this movie was outraged at the portrayal of the murder of the young Episcopal Sumerian, Jonathan Daniels.
The movie showed him being shot while alone on a side street in Selma.
In reality, he was killed by a shotgun in Hainesville as he pushed Ruby sales out of the line of fire.
A Roman Catholic priest was also wounded in the attack.
The Disney version does a great injustice to Jonathan's memory and to the heroism of the priest who was wounded.