Sheyann Webb-Christburg had just turned 9 years old when she became Selma's "smallest freedom fighter," joining protesters walking from Selma to Montgomery in what would become a turning point in the ...

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 ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- She was just eight years old when she joined the fight for equality, Sheyann Webb-Christburg, "the youngest freedom fighter," served as the guest speaker for the U.S. Army ...

Sheyann Webb-Christburg knows something about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. most people don't. "He loved to tell jokes," she said of the civil rights activist. "Yes, he was a very serious man ...

SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Selma foot soldiers Sheyann Webb-Christburg, JoAnn Bland and Bennie Lee Tucker will be honored in Washington, D.C. at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.

Sixty years ago, on March 7, Sheyann Webb-Christburg walked with 600 other activists in Selma, Alabama, to protest Black voter suppression. As they reached the Edmund Pettus Bridge, just six blocks ...

Webb-Christburg was one of tens of thousands of people who made the trip to Selma Sunday for the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, which celebrates the events of the march and honors the participants.

It's good to look back, but not go back, the woman known as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Smallest Freedom Fighter" said Saturday night. Sheyann Webb-Cristburg was keynote speaker at the 12th Annual ...

Viterbo University put on its annual King celebration Monday night. Every year, the university hosts a keynote speaker as part of the event. This year’s guest speaker is Sheyann Webb-Christburg. She ...

The Rev. Bernard LaFayette (center, in wheelchair and cloth cap) holds his wife Kate’s hand as they are wheeled across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025 as part of 60th ...