Terri A. Sewell tweeted the following:
"In January 1965, 8 year-old Sheyann Webb made her way into Brown Chapel AME Church for a mass meeting where she would soon become one of the youngest Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement and bravely march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Terri A. Sewell:
"Olympian Jesse Owens was recognized in his lifetime as perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history. He won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, but his greatest triumph was shattering Hitlers myth of white supremacy. #BlackhistoryMonth" on Feb. 11Read on Twitter
"Today we recognize Horace King. Born into slavery, King fought for his freedom and went on to become a successful bridge architect and builder in AL & GA. He then served as one of the first African Americans in the Alabama State Legislature for two terms!#BlackHistoryMonth" on Feb. 10Read on Twitter
"Today, we recognize the first African-American aviators in the US Army Air Corps, the Tuskegee Airmen. In 2018 I had the honor to meet a few of these extraordinary heroes who fought bravely on behalf of this nation in the face of racism and discrimination. #BlackHistoryMonth" on Feb. 9Read on Twitter
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