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Name: Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom : My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Author: Lowery, Lynda Blackmon
ISBN: [978-0-14-751216-1,0-14-751216-6]

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

Author: Lowery, Lynda Blackmon

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Follett Number: 1435VB6
Audience: Young Adult
Publisher: Speak, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2016
Format: 144 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-751216-1
ISBN-10: 0-14-751216-6
Dewey: 323.1196
Classifications: Nonfiction

Subjects:

African Americans Civil Rights History 20th Century

African Americans Suffrage History 20th Century

Civil Rights Movements History 20th Century

Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950-

Selma (Ala.) Race Relations

Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)

Lynda Blackmon Lowery recounts her experiences as the youngest marcher on the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

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A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes--now in paperback will an all-new discussion guide. 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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