Sheyann Webb

Sheyann Webb-Christburg
Sheyann Webb at age 8
Born (1956-02-17) February 17, 1956
Selma, Alabama, U.S.
Parent(s)John and Betty Webb

Sheyann Webb-Christburg (born February 17, 1956) is a civil rights activist known as Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Smallest Freedom Fighter" and co-author of the book Selma, Lord, Selma. As an eight-year-old, Webb took part in the first attempt at the Selma to Montgomery march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, known as Bloody Sunday.

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