Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

EAN: 9780147512161
Author(s): Lowery, Lynda Blackmon (Author) , Leacock, Elspeth (With) , Buckley, Susan (With) , Loughran, Pj (Illustrator)
Publisher: Speak
Target Age Group: 12 and UP
Publication Date: 12/27/2016
Page Count:144
List Price: $10.99
Binding: Paperback

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.