Selma, Lord, Selma is a 1999 American biographical drama film based on true events that happened in March 1965, known as Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It tells
   the story through the eyes of an 9-year-old African-American girl named Sheyann Webb. Directed by Charles Burnett, a pioneer of Black American independent cinema.
   Sheyann Webb sees Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. going into Brown Chapel AME Church one day while playing outside with her friends. They are told that Dr. King has come
   to Selma, Alabama to help the Negro people get voting rights. Sheyann learns many things from Dr. King, who teaches her and her friends that when asked, 'Children,
   what do you want?' their answer should be 'Freedom'. But also that everyone deserves to be treated with fairness, regardless of the color of their skin, and that children
   also have a battle to fight. Sheyann wants to get involved and skips school to sneak into the meetings. One night Sheyann's friend named Jimmie Lee Jackson is killed.
   To draw attention, a 54-mile march to the state capital of Alabama will take place. Marchers will present a petition to Governor Wallace to protest that Negroes are not
   being treated fairly. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, Sheyann and other African-American protesters march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge en route to Montgomery, and are
   attacked by police. Sheyann is the youngest person to march. In August, President Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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