Sheyann Webb Biography

Ms. Sheyann Webb was born in Selma, Alabama on February 17, 1956. She was raised in the George Washington Carver Projects by an impoverished household of eight children. She is an advocate for justice, equality, and self-actualization. Ms. Webb is also noted for her work as a humanitarian, civil rights activist, mentor, and youth advocate. She is best known as the co-author of Selma Lord Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Movement. In 2000, the NAACP Image Awards nominated her novel, which is now a Disney film, for Best Television Mini Series. The film recalls her early experiences with the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the late Jonathan Daniels, and other civil rights leaders as one of the youngest activists during the Selma, Alabama civil rights struggle in the 1960s. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dubbed Sheyann the Smallest Freedom Fighter. Ms. Webb would slip out of her house to attend mass gatherings when she was eight years old. She also led the assembly in singing hymns of liberation. She was the youngest participant in Bloody Sunday, the historically first attempted Selma-to-Montgomery march. Ms. Sheyann Webb attended a segregated public school in Dallas County, Alabama, until her junior year, when she became one of the first black students to be integrated into an all-white institution. Sheyann claims that her junior high years were the worst of her life. She was shoved down the stairs, called foul names, suspended from school, and spat on, and the school authorities did nothing.

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