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NASH CONTINUED
“I think all of the roles
of people who played large
roles in the Selma project
were limited and marginal
ized except Martin Luther
King’s and Lyndon John
son’s — his was over, over
played,” Nash said. “You
know, it’s really a challenge
for people who were not
there to put on the screen
in about an hour and a half
events that took place over
a period of months. And I
think all in all they did a re
ally good job.”
Nash said she gave some
input into the movie, hav
ing received a call from
Oprah Winfrey, who pro
duces and acts in the film.
“She asked me to read the
script several months before
they started shooting and
made comments about how
young people don’t read as
much today and that many
of them would take the film
as history even though it’s
not a documentary,” Nash
said. “But she said she want
ed to get things as accurate
as possible.”
Nash said she sent the di
rector and Winfrey a four-
and-a-half page list of sug
gestions. She later received a
call informing her about half
would be used.
However, the notion that
Lyndon Johnson came up
with the idea for the Selma
march was a lie, Nash said.
She recounted how the idea
originated with her and her
then-husband, James Bevel.
“Now this so-called
controversy about Lyndon
Johnson and Selma being
his idea isn’t really a contro
versy at all. Number one,
it’s a lie. Number two, it’s
a propaganda movement,”
Nash said.
Nash said Johnson’s part
was overplayed to help pro
vide a portrayal of whites
that is not violent and hate
ful.
“We can’t have anything
like that get an Academy
Award, my goodness,” Nash
said sarcastically. “It doesn’t
have a white savior. So we’ll
just say it was Lyndon John
son and that he was a partner
with Martin Luther King.”
Nash said people now
need to think about the fu
ture generation and contin
ue to strive to make society
better for them, as she and
her peers did in the march
from Selma.
“We, my contemporaries
and I, had you in mind when
we did what we did,” Nash
said to the audience. “We
knew that if we kept march
ing a couple blocks ahead,
the state troopers were there
or perhaps the mob, and
that someone was likely to
be killed or injured.”
Nash said some people
would burst into fearful tears
during the 54-mile march
from Selma to Montgom
ery, always to be comforted
by a friend.
“I’d see someone put
their arm around their
shoulder and say, ‘What
we’re doing is important,”’
Nash said. “‘We’re doing
this for generations yet un
born.’”
Jeremiah Sutton, uni
versity studies senior, said
he thought the speech was
inspiring.
“It was really cool to learn
about her and the phases of
[social change] and the diL
ferences between protests
and movements,” Sutton
said. “I think that the im
portant part was when she
talked about how much
planning goes into things
and how well-planned
things usually have a much
better response.”
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