| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change. Dir. by Jayarsi Majumdar Hart. Prod. by Jayarsi Majumdar Hart, William Hart, and Celia Carey. Hartfilms, Independent Television Service, and Alabama Public Television, 2006. 60 mins. (PBS Home Video, http://www.shoppbs.org/)

The history of the Roman Catholic Church in the South and its responses to the race question and the civil rights movement only recently have come into their own, and stories of Catholic efforts to promote racial justice are still not well known. Any effort to shed light on this important chapter of American history is welcomed. In Sisters of Selma, the director Jayarsi Majumdar Hart unfortunately is not sure what she has set out to accomplish, and, as a result, the theme of her work is unclear. Hart tries simultaneously to present the history of the voting rights struggle in Alabama and Catholic participation in it; to analyze the evolution of the role of Catholic religious women (that is, nuns) in the 1960s; and to examine Catholic ministry to African Americans in Selma, Alabama. In all three instances, the documentary comes up short.

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