My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement

Combining family stories of the everyday and the extraordinary as seen through the eyes of her twelve- year-old self, Willie Mae Brown gives listeners an unforgettable portrayal of her coming of age in a town at the crossroads of history.As the civil rights movement and the fight for voter rights unfold in Selma, Alabama, many things happen inside and outside the Brown family’ s home that do not have anything to do with the landmark 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Yet the famous outrages which unfold on that span form an inescapable backdrop in this collection of stories.