Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March /

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As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, 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 memoi...

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Main Author: Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950- (Author)
Other Authors: Leacock, Elspeth (Contributor), Buckley, Susan Washburn (Contributor), Loughran, PJ (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015.
Subjects:
Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, > 1950-
Selma to Montgomery Rights March > (1965 : > Selma, Ala.) > Juvenile literature.
Selma to Montgomery Rights March > (1965 : > Selma, Ala.)
Selma to Montgomery Rights March.
1900-1999
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > Suffrage > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Suffrage > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century.
Selma (Ala.) > Race relations > Juvenile literature.
Selma (Ala.) > Race relations.
Biographies.
History.
Juvenile works.
Nonfiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Growing up strong and determined
  • In the movement
  • Jailbirds
  • In the sweatbox
  • Bloody Sunday
  • Headed for Montgomery
  • Turning 15
  • Weary and wet
  • Montgomery at last
  • Why voting rights?

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