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In 'My Selma,' Willie Mae Brown recalls growing up during the Civil Rights Movement
In 'My Selma,' Willie Mae Brown recalls growing up during the Civil Rights Movement
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12 minutes
Released:
Mar 2, 2023
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Podcast episode
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Willie Mae Brown was a little girl in Selma, Alabama in the 1960s. In her new YA book, My Selma, she recalls growing up during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the South. As she tells Here & Now's Robin Young, those core childhood memories include going to church to see Martin Luther King, Jr. speak – which moved Brown's mother to tears as she held the author – and her siblings getting arrested for trying to accompany teachers who were planning to register to vote. But, she says, there was also a lot of joy and community as a child on the frontlines of justice.
Released:
Mar 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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