Equal Time with Martha Burk week of February 23, 2015 Selma Slights More than LBJ

Published: Feb. 23, 2015, 11 p.m.

There’s been a lot of controversy over the movie Selma and the Academy Awards. Selma is rightfully centered on Dr. King, and has been rightfully criticized  for the way it portrays President Lyndon Johnson.  But there’s another slight that also distorts history, and that’s the role King’s wife Coretta played in the civil rights movement.