In 'My Selma,' Willie Mae Brown recalls growing up during the Civil Rights Movement

Willie Mae Brown was a little girl in Selma, Alabama in the 1960s. In her new YA book, My Selma , she recalls growing up during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the South. As she tells Here & Now 's Robin Young, those core childhood memories include going to church to see Martin Luther King, Jr. speak – which moved Brown's mother to tears as she held the author – and her siblings getting arrested for trying to accompany teachers who were planning to register to vote. But, she says, there was also a lot of joy and community as a child on the frontlines of justice. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy