03781cam a2200625 4500 920993903 TxAuBib 20230804120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250877246 1250877245 d85a1350-2257-498a-9c99-f433c8532014 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8822157 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Brown, Willie Mae. My Selma [Libby Audiobook] : True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement. Macmillan Audio, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 159MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 159MB. martin luther king jr. racial social justice. black lives matter. american history. African American. Claudette Colvin. southern voices. intersectional. Black culture. Autobiography. Civil Rights. middle grade. True stories. segregation. Biography. childhood. narrative. activism. children. Jim Crow. diverse. Alabama. memoir. 1960s. South. selma. HTML:<p><b>"Karen Chilton conveys both powerful joy and profound grief in her narration of Willie Mae Brown's stories about growing up in Selma, Alabama, during the Civil Rights movement."- <i>AudioFile</i></b><br /> <b><br /> The preface and afterword are read by the author.<br /> <i>Combining family stories of the everyday and the extraordinary as seen through the eyes of her twelve-year-old self, Willie Mae Brown gives readers an unforgettable portrayal of her coming of age in a town at the crossroads of history.</i></b><br /> 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. In one, Willie Mae takes it upon herself to offer summer babysitting services to a glamorous single white mother—a secret she keeps from her parents that unravels with shocking results. In another, Willie Mae reluctantly joins her mother at a church rally, and is forever changed after hearing Martin Luther King Jr. deliver a defiant speech in spite of a court injunction.<br /> Infused with the vernacular of her Southern upbringing, <i>My Selma</i> captures the voice and vision of a fascinating young person—perspicacious, impetuous, resourceful, and even mystical in her ways of seeing the world around her—who gifts us with a loving portrayal of her hometown while also delivering a no-holds-barred indictment of the time and place.<br /> <b>A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.</b></p>. Biography & Autobiography. Juvenile Nonfiction. Sociology. Geography. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-08-04 20:00:02. Chilton, Karen. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d85a1350-2257-498a-9c99-f433c8532014&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d85a1350-2257-498a-9c99-f433c8532014&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)