Sheyann Webb

Sheyann Webb-Christburg
Sheyann Webb at age 8
Born
Selma, Alabama, U.S.
Parent(s)John and Betty Webb

Sheyann Webb-Christburg is a civil rights activist and co-author of the book Selma, Lord, Selma. As a nine-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, and was known as Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Smallest Freedom Fighter".

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