Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March / by Lynda Blackmon Lowery ; as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley ; illustrated by PJ Loughran.
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 eleven 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.
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- ISBN: 9780803741232
- ISBN: 0803741235
- ISBN: 9781518210624
- ISBN: 1518210627
- ISBN: 9780147512161
- Physical Description: 127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015.
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| Target Audience Note: | 780L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.1 1 171644. |
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