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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...

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Autores principales: Webb, Sheyann (Autor), Sikora, Frank, 1936- (Autor), Nelson, Rachel West (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1980]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (163 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780817389437