We would like to show a simple overview of the
evolution of the Black American people rights from slavery to the current
situation. We drew inspiration from importants films about this topic :
12 Years a Slave and Selma.
Last year, the best film by the Oscar Academy was 12
Years a Slave, and his director Steve McQueen one the most awarded in the
international cinema festivals. He is today, perhaps with Sidney Poitiers, the
most important Black American cinema director. Based on the unbelievable real
facts, this is the history of a Black American person struggling for his
existence and liberty. Before the Civil War of the United States, Solomon
Northup, a free Black American person from New York, is captured and sold into
slavery. Salomon is led to the South and fighting against the brutality of
a terrible slave proprietor. He struggles to survive besides to preserve his
dignity. His awful hell lasted twelve years until the Solomon's life
changes when an old Canadian abolitionist friend appears.
It is not a coincidence that in the current Oscar
awards 2015 we have a terrific film, Selma, about Martin Luther King, the US
president Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights marches that changed America at
the sixties. Selma is the impressive memories of the riotous three-month epoch
in 1965, when Martin Luther King led a risky movement to achieve the same
polling rights for Black American people in front of a violent opposition. The
heroic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965, concluded in President
Johnson accepting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is one of the most substantial
triumphs for the civil rights activism. Selma is the memoir in what way the
well-regarded leader Martin Luther King and his colleagues in the movement
impelled change that forever transformed history. And it is not a coincidence
because it seems that there is an idea of culpability in the collectivistic
American conscience for his dreadful past. Today, acknowledging historic
calamities as the histories of the films Selma, 12 Years a Slave or The Help,
American people are asking forgiveness and they are reconciling with the Black
Society.
