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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

My Story of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March

by Lynda Blackmon Lowery; Elspeth Leacock (Retold by); Susan Washburn Buckley (Retold by); P. J. Loughr

Synopsis

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 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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Book Information

Copyright year 2015
ISBN-13 9780803741232
ISBN-10 0803741235
Class Copyright
Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
Subject Juvenile Nonfiction
File Size 19 MB
Number of Pages 128
Shelf No. KW345
Grade Range 7
Ages 12
Lexile 780L
Curriculums HMH Into Literature Trademarks