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

By Nelson , Rachel West; Webb , Sheyann; Nelson , Rachel West; Sikora , Frank; Webb , Sheyann

Book information

Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0-8173-0898-9, 9780817308988, 9780585141114, 0585141118
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7689821 bytes)
Edition
1St Edition
Pages
146\164
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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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 courage, struggle and redemption that readers will discover is Selma, Lord, Selma.

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