Selma, Lord, Selma (1999) on Netflix
NR19991h 34mAdventureComedyDrama
In 1965 Alabama, Sheyann Webb sees Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. come to Selma to help Negro residents win the vote. She slips away from school into one of his meetings.
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Sheyann Webb plays outside with her friends when she sees Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walk into Brown Chapel AME Church, and she learns that he has arrived in Selma to help Negro residents obtain the vote. She slips into a meeting in place of school, where Dr. King reads a report she wrote about him and asks her to sing at a second gathering that evening. Her mother scolds her for missing class but lets her attend, and there Sheyann introduces her friend Rachel to Dr. King. He teaches the girls that when they are asked what they want, they should answer "Freedom." Back home, she hears her mother describe her interest in the movement to her father, who grows worried.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)
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- Dr. King's daughter Yolanda appears in the film Selma, Lord, Selma as Miss Bright, Sheyann's teacher who marches with her.
- The film is based on a 1980 memoir by Sheyann Webb, Rachel West and Frank Sikora, published by the University of Alabama Press under the full title Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-Rights Days.
