In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl (Jurnee Smollett) is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Clifton Powell) and becomes a devout follower. But her resolution is tested when she joins others in the famed march from Selma to Montgomery. This movie is based on the memoir 'Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days' by Sheyann Webb and Rachel West Nelson, as told to Frank Sikora, first published in 1980.