How does selma portray the various roles of women in the civil rights movement?

Women were on the front lines of the civil rights movement — everyone knows how Rosa Parks sat down on that bus. And yet, their roles as leaders and organizers have been less visible. Newspaper headlines at the time identified Parks as a seamstress, as if she were a mere bystander who just got fed up that day. In fact, she had been an organizer in the movement long before her act of defiance. Like Parks, many women at the time were deeply engaged in on-the-ground organizing, but not recognized as leaders by the movement or by history.

to oppose fdr’s new deal

explanation:

the american liberty league. the american liberty league was a nonpartisan organization formed in 1934 in opposition to the new deal. the organization's stated goal was “to defend the constitution and defend the rights and liberties guaranteed by that constitution.”

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