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The Civil Rights Movement’s ‘Smallest Freedom Fighter’ on the Power of Your Vote
On the morning of March 7, 1965, 7-year-old Sheyann Webb-Christburg scrawled a note to her parents and set it on the washing machine before quietly slipping out of her home in Selma, Alabama: “I am marching for our freedom.”
Her parents warned her not to join the more than 600 other marchers that day, bound for the Edmund Pettus Bridge and then Montgomery.
They knew it would be dangerous, and they were right — March 7 would come to be known as Bloody Sunday.
“But I had become disobedient,” Sheyann told the ACLU in a recent interview. “I had already made up my mind, and nobody was going to turn me around.
I wanted to fight for something that my parents couldn’t fight for.”
"I wanted to fight for something that my parents couldn’t fight for.”
That fight, of course, was to ensure that Black Americans could freely exercise their constitutional right to vote, a right that had exist