Democracy on the Diag: Selma | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Type: Public event

Democracy on the Diag: Selma

Democracy Week 2026

Date & time

Sep 16, 2026, 8:00-10:30 pm EDT

Selma is a 2014 historical drama directed by Ava DuVernay that chronicles Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dangerous 1965 campaign for equal voting rights, culminating in the historic marches from Selma to Montgomery and the signing of the Voting Rights Act.