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My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement
By BROWN, Willie Mae
- ISBN
- 9780374390235
- Publisher
- Farrar
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 13, 2023 | Nonfiction - Middle To High School
Gr 5 Up—Brown started writing and telling stories of her childhood as a young Black girl in Selma, AL, and formed them into this book. These accounts range from the quotidian (receiving a new Christmas bicycle and fighting with her cousin), to powerful recollections of experiencing the greater civil rights struggle as a child (Brown going with her mother to hear Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak and the arrest of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
