Selma, Lord, Selma : girlhood memories of the civil-rights days

by Sheyann Webb

Other authorsFrank Sikora (Author), Rachel West Nelson (Author)
Hardcover, 1980

Status

Available

Collection

Publication

University : University of Alabama Press, 1980.

Description

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 cour

Awards

Alabama Author Award (Non-Fiction — 1981)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 1980)

Language

Barcode

1471
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