My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement
Willie Mae Brown
Set in Selma, Alabama, this account looks at Willie Mae Brown’s childhood as the civil rights movement and the campaign for voting rights unfolded around her. It includes life within and beyond the Brown family home, alongside events connected with the 1965 march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Brown describes growing up Black in Selma and recalls attending church with her mother to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
