It's the Critics Who are Distorting Civil Rights History

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Even before it was released on Christmas Day, Selmawas under attack.

In Politico's "What SelmaGets Wrong," (12/22/14), LBJ Presidential Library director Mark Updegrove charged that the fictional film's depiction of the epic voting-rights battle in the Alabama town "misses mightily in faithfully capturing the pivotal relationship–contentious, the film would have you believe–between [Martin Luther] King and President Lyndon Baines Johnson." This served, Updegrove scolded, to "bastardize one of the most hallowed chapters in the civil rights movement by suggesting that the president himself stood in the way of progress."