Selma, Lord, Selma
As a continuation of The University of Tennessee’s Commemoration of the Fortieth Anniversary of the Passage of the Voting Rights Act, a talk on Children in the Movement was presented by Sheyann Webb- Christburg, Friday, February 18, 2005 in the University Center, Shiloh Room.
The movie Selma, Lord, Selma, based on the memoirs of two little girls, Sheyann Webb and Rachel West, in the Selma campaign of 1965, was shown Thursday, February 17, and Friday, February 18, in Hodges Library Auditorium. These two eight and nine year old girls were activists in the Selma demonstrations.
Confrontation at the Edmond Pettus bridge
Sheyann Webb right of center and Rachel West
to the right of Sheyann