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Author

Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Publisher

Publication Date

2015

Pages

128

ISBN13

9780803741232

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March

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A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes

As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of African-Americans. In this memoir, she shows today’s young readers what it means to fight nonviolently (even when the police are using violence, as in the Bloody Sunday protest) and how it felt to be part of changing American history.

Straightforward and inspiring, this beautifully illustrated memoir brings readers into the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, complementing Common Core classroom learning and bringing history alive for young readers.

Ages:  12-17

Grades: 7 and up

Lexile Measure:  0780

Additional information

Author

Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Publisher

Publication Date

2015

Pages

128

ISBN13

9780803741232

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