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Selma, Lord, Selma : Girlhood Memories of the Civil-rights Days
author
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Webb, Sheyann.; Nelson, Rachel West; Sikora, Frank
publisher
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University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0817308989
print isbn13
:
9780817308988
ebook isbn13
:
9780585141114
language
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English
subject
Webb, Sheyann--Childhood and youth, Nelson, Rachel West--Childhood and youth, African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Selma, Selma (Ala.)--Race relations, African Americans--Alabama--Selma--Biography.
publication date
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1997
lcc
:
F334.S4W4 1997eb
ddc
:
323.1/196073/076145
subject
:
Webb, Sheyann--Childhood and youth, Nelson, Rachel West--Childhood and youth, African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Selma, Selma (Ala.)--Race relations, African Americans--Alabama--Selma--Biography.
Page i
Selma, Lord, Selma
Page ii
Sheyann Webb Rachel West Nelson
Page iii
Selma, Lord, Selma
Girlhood Memories of the Civil-Rights Days
as told to Frank Sikora
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS TUSCALOOSA AND LONDON
Page iv
FRONTISPIECE: On March 21, 1965, Sheyann Webb, left, and Rachel West receive a victory hug from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., just before the start of the march from Selma to Montgomery. [ 1979 Vernon Merritt-Black Star]
Paperback Printing 1997
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Webb, Sheyann. Selma, Lord, Selma.
1. Webb, Sheyann. 2. Nelson, Rachel West. 3. Afro-AmericansCivil rightsAlabama Selma. 4. Selma, Ala.Race relations. 5. Afro-Americans AlabamaSelmaBiography. I. Nelson, Rachel West, joint author. II. Sikora, Frank, 1936 III. Title. F334.S4W3 301.45'19'6073022 [B] 7919327 ISBN 0-8173-0898-9
Copyright 1980 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 354870380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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Page v
To our parents and brothers and sisters, and to the memory of Dr. King who said, "Walk together, children, and don't ya grow weary."
Page vii
Contents
List of Illustrations
viii
Foreword
ix
Selma, Lord, Selma
1
Afterword
145
Page viii
Illustrations
Martin Luther King, Jr., Sheyann Webb, and Rachel West, March 21, 1965
frontispiece
Sheyann Webb, 1965
5
Rachel and Sheyann, 1965
9
Rachel West, 1965
13
Jonathan Daniels
52
Martin Luther King in Selma, February, 1965
65
Sheriff's deputies keep prospective black voters in line
65
Sheyann and Rachel at street meeting near church
78
"Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965
89, 90, 91
Deputies hem in demonstrators in wake of Bloody Sunday
109
The Selma Wall
113
A prayer vigil near Brown Chapel
113
Ms. Sheyann Webb, at age 19, with Mrs. Coretta King
135
Ms. Sheyann Webb, 19, during tenth-anniversary observance of Bloody Sunday
138
Mrs. Rachel West Nelson, 1979
141
Brown Chapel AME Church and Memorial, 1979"... a tribute to those who planned, encouraged, marched, were jailed, beaten and died to change black Americans from second class to first class citizens."
147
Page ix
Foreword
On January 2, 1965, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., came to Selma, Alabama, to recruit an army of nonviolent soldiers to wage a war against laws and customs that prevented blacks from voting.
Being a black American living in Selma didn't mean you automatically became a part of this army. The decision to join up was a matter of individual conscience for each man, woman, and child. Many did not volunteer.
Those who did made the choice at different times and under varying circumstances. This is the story of two members of that army, two young girls: Sheyann Webb, who was eight, and her friend and next-door neighbor Rachel West, age nine.
Neither emerged from her experiences an Afroamerican Joan of Arc, but both of them saw the battle erupt, both saw it through, and both lived to see the conclusion.
It could be argued that both merely took part, that they merely followed their elders, that neither could be described as a heroine.
But it also could be argued, just as surely, that to characterize their actions as anything less than heroic would be to do them both an injustice.
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