Sheyann webb autobiography

Sheyann b was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965.
Sheyann b was eight years old and a third-grader when she put on her “marching shoes.” As she walked to school one morning in January 1965.
Sheyann b-Christburg (born February 17, 1956) is a civil rights activist known as Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Smallest Freedom Fighter" and co-author of.

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Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days

February 13, 2023

This was a recommended reading book for the Road Scholar Civil Rights Tour. Little did I know it is really a children's book and a good one. So reading it in basically one day was not an issue, short book, under 150 pages, large type, and a number of photographs.

It chronicles the story of two young girls, both nine, who participated in the Civil Rights movement in Selma. One, Sheyann, actually walked on the Bloody Sunday on the John Pettus Bridge. Both knew, loved, and respected Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and there is a picture of the two of them on his lap.

What was a surprise to me was the connection with Jonathan Daniels. Having worked in the Keene school system, we all knew his story, and of course, one of the elementary schools was named after him. But when he was in Selma he actually lived with Rachel West's family and both girls were quite attached to him. Rachel's mother actually flew to Keene for his funeral. We are certainly all connected!

So, short, quick, but well done and well worth

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Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-rights Days

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 conducted interviews with Webb and West, weaving their recollections into this luminous story of fear and courage, struggle and redemption that readers will discover is Selma, Lord, Selma.

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Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days

Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-Rights Days is based on journalist Frank Sikora’s interviews with eight-year-old Sheyann Webb and nine-year-old Rachel West about their fight for voting rights in Selma, Alabama. For three turbulent months in 1965, the girls were caught up in the tumult of the civil rights demonstrations in Selma, Alabama.

The Selma-to-Montgomery march, “Bloody Sunday,” and the other events that preceded them, are landmarks of the Civil Rights Movement. Sheyann Webb’s and Rachel West Nelson’s “girlhood memories” capture the fervor of the movement in Alabama, the quiet heroism and high courage, and the stark, pervasive fear it engendered.

This story is not a chronicle of the Civil Rights Movement in Selma; neither is it a day-to-day report on the lives of the two girls. Rather, it is the recollection of some memorable events of striking importance in their lives. [Publisher’s description.]

ISBN: 9780817308988 | University Alabama Pr