Sisters of Selma

Sisters of Selma
by Jayasri Majumdar Hart

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Director: Jayasri Majumdar Hart
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 57 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: PBS (Direct)

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DVD Review: Sisters of Selma
Summary: 5 Stars

I am working on a doctoral dissertation that is dealing with women's engagement of patriarchal structures; in particular the ways that Catholic nuns interacted with the hierarchy of the Church during the 1960's. As I watched this DVD, I was taken back to those turbulent times and remember watching live news coverage of the Selma marches. If you were alive during those times, this DVD will re-inspire you to the call of activism to fight injustice. If you were not yet born, this DVD will tell you the story of how peaceful interventions, determination, and collaboration among a diversity of people was possible and continues to be possible. This DVD has helped me reflect on how we need to rethink history ... to look at visual memories of people standing up to oppression, especially the Catholic sisters who broke their silence, I am encouraged that social change is a possibility.

Description of Sisters of Selma

After the violence of "Bloody Sunday" in 1965, Catholic sisters from around the country followed their faith to join the voting rights protests in Selma, Alabama. Never before in American history had vowed Catholic women made so public a politican statement.

Risking personal safety to bring change, the sisters were themselves changed--and they tell us how. Selma's African Americans attest to the importance of Catholic clergy in their lives--and explain why it took another 35 years to become fully enfranchised.

In 2003, director Jayasri Hart reunited the nuns to view themselves and the protests on tape for the first time. Selmians, Catholic and Protestant, offer their views on the nuns' contributions to history. A powerful, affirming new story of faith and justice arises from events we thought we knew.

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