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Sheyann Webb-Christburg
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.
SheyannWebb-Christburg (born February 17, 1956) is a civil rights activist known as Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Smallest Freedom Fighter" and co-author...
film 2002 The Rosa Parks Story Rosa Parks 2003 Freedom: A History of Us SheyannWebb / Melba Pattillo (voice) Episodes: "Marching to Freedom Land" and "Let...
1998–2000 Cosby Jurnee Series regular (8 episodes) 1999 Selma, Lord, Selma SheyannWebb Television film 1999 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child...
starred in the made-for-television film Selma, Lord, Selma (1999) playing SheyannWebb's mother. In 2001 she starred alongside Yolonda Ross in the prison drama...
1886 Howard University alumnus, early writer on civil rights topics SheyannWebb-Christburg Social Studies notable civil rights activist, author of Selma...
which tells the story of Bloody Sunday through the eyes of 11-year-old SheyannWebb-Christburg, portrayed by Jurnee Smollett. List of unarmed African Americans...
Network Notes 1999 Selma, Lord, Selma ABC Adaptation of the 1997 book by SheyannWebb, Rachel West and Frank Sikora. Nominated for the Humanitas Prize 1991...
in 1960. Selma, Lord, Selma (1999), follows the life of 11-year-old SheyannWebb during the events leading up to the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march and...
Turnbow Albert Turner Elbert Tuttle Richard Valeriani Nannie Washburn SheyannWebb Hosea Williams Abraham Wood Andrew Young Columnist Anthony Lewis reviewed...
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