Carrie's Children: How One Mother Prepared Her Children to Become Selma's Foot Soldiers

How one mother prepared her children to become Selma's foot soldiers.

In 1965 Selma, Alabama, Carrie Louise Lundy made a decision that still takes one's breath away. A single mother raising nine children while working as a nurse and midwife, she chose not to shield her children from the civil rights movement unfolding three blocks from their home at 1421 Sylvan Street. Instead, she prepared them for it - building courage through radical trust and high expectations, raising children brave eno...