Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
by Sheyann Webb
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Sheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965. He came to organize non-violent demonstrations against discriminatory voting laws. Selma, Lord, Selma is their firsthand account of the events from that turbulent winter of 1965--events that changed not only the lives of these two little girls but the lives of all Alabamians and all Americans. From 1975 to 1979, award-winning journalist Frank Sikora show more conducted interviews with Webb and West, weaving their recollections into this luminous story of fear and cour show lessTags
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