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Sheyann webb biography
Sheyann Webb
Freedom Fighter
Sheyann Webb-Christburg | |
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Sheyann Webb at age 8 | |
| Born | (1956-02-17) February 17, 1956 (age 68) Selma, Alabama, U.S. |
| Parent(s) | John and Betty Webb |
Sheyann Webb-Christburg (born February 17, 1956) is a civil rights activist known as Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Smallest Freedom Fighter" and co-author of the book Selma, Lord, Selma.
As an eight-year-old, Webb took part in the first attempt at the Selma to Montgomery march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, known as Bloody Sunday.
Early life
Webb was born on February 17, 1956, in Selma, Alabama, to John and Betty Webb.
She grew up in a family of eight children. As a child, she attended the segregated public schools of Dallas County, Alabama until she was one of the first black children to integrate into an all-white school[1] where she was pushed downstairs, called derogatory names, and spit on.
The beginning of her activism
In January 1965,&