Selma, Lord, Selma
Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Civil Rights, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Sheyann Webb-Christburg, Rachel West Nelson Milhouse, Frank Sikora | ISBN: | 9780817389437 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press | Publication: | April 27, 2015 |
| Imprint: | University Alabama Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Sheyann Webb-Christburg, Rachel West Nelson Milhouse, Frank Sikora |
| ISBN: | 9780817389437 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press |
| Publication: | April 27, 2015 |
| Imprint: | University Alabama Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
