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Sheyann is Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.'s "Smallest Freedom Fighter" and co-author of the book, Selma, Lord, Selma. As an eight year old, Sheyann Webb-Christburg marched with Dr. King in the Selma march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge
on March 7, 1965 known as "Bloody Sunday." Selma, Lord, Selma
is a moving, dramatic story of a young, courageous girl who for three turbulent months in 1965 was caught up in the civil rights demonstration in Selma, Alabama.
Today, in the
aftermath of her book, her story is part of a television series where she also talks of the Selma experience as an adult and the impact Dr. King made on her life. There is also a made-for-television movie entitled
Selma Lord Selma (1999). |
