Sheyann Webb-Christburg was eight years old when she stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the youngest protester at the famous Bloody Sunday march.
“It wasn’t ordinary for a young 8-year-old to be there, but I had already made up my mind,” she said. “And today, it saddens me to see that we are back here again fighting for that right to vote with equal rights.”
“We can’t give up now, because we are not going back,” she said. “Civil rights are never secure permanently. Our call to action has come again.”
Webb-Christburg joined U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures and state lawmakers Thursday evening in Montgomery and called on Black residents in Alabama to protest redistricting and to vote…