Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days [Paperback]

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, Selmais 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 isSelma, Lord, Selma.

This moving firsthand account puts the 1965 struggle for Civil?Rights in Selma, Alabama, in very human terms.