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My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement
Willie Mae Brown
Ages: 12+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-39023-5
Keywords: Black community and family, 1950s and 1960s Jim Crow South, Civil Rights and Voting Rights Movements
An intimate look at growing up Black in Selma, Alabama, where Brown joined her mother at church to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak.