She witnessed Bloody Sunday in person. 58 years later, she’ll go back again
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — On March 7, 1965, Sheyann Webb, a 9-year-old Black girl from Selma, Ala., sat in her bedroom, chest heaving, face streaked with tears, her throat still burning from tear gas. Her parents were perched on her child-size bed having just calmed her screams. They watched as she wrote…
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