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

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 American...