Selma-Montgomery marcher Sheyann Webb-Christburg walks to the Freedom Rides Museum during a community celebration for civil rights icons Rev. C.T. Vivian and Congressman John Lewis in Montgomery ...

Birmingham, Ala. (WIAT) — She was there on the bridge that day. Sheyann Webb-Christburg was 9 years old on March 7, 1965. She was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “smallest freedom fighter.” She lived next ...

Rev. Bernard LaFayette (center, in wheelchair and cloth cap) holds his wife Kate’s hand as they are wheeled over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 9, 2025 as part of 60th ...

SELMA — Sheyann Webb-Christburg was eight years old when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to lead hundreds in a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in March 1965 for voting rights for ...

SELMA — Sheyann Webb-Christburg was 8 years old when Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to lead hundreds in a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in March 1965 for voting rights for Black ...

She cites the path of Sheyann Webb-Christburg, one of the youngest marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on the way to Montgomery, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, in a ...