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

Sheyann Webb, Rachel West Nelson, Frank Sikora

Book cover for Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
Book cover for Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days

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

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

Sheyann Webb, Rachel West Nelson, Frank Sikora

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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 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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A winner on the Best Books list is Selma, Lord, Selma, in which authorFrank Sikora has simply and intensely evoked the bitter struggle of the1965 civil rights marches in Selma through the memories of Sheyann Webband Rachel West Nelson.--Wilson Library Bulletin

Publishing Information

Publisher: University Alabama Press
Pub date: 1997-04-30
Length: 164 pages

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