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Name: Lillian's Right to Vote : a Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Author: Winter, Jonah
ISBN: [978-0-385-39028-6,0-385-39028-9]

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Lillian's Right to Vote : a Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Author: Winter, Jonah

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Follett Number: 0548KV5
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2015
Format: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 23 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-39028-6
ISBN-10: 0-385-39028-9
LCCN: 2014-010937
Dewey: -E-
Classifications: Fiction; Easy

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African Americans History Fiction

Picture Books

Voting Fiction

As an elderly woman, Lillian recalls that her great-great-grandparents were sold as slaves in front of a courthouse where only rich white men were allowed to vote, then the long fight that led to her right--and determination--to cast her ballot since the Voting Rights Act gave every American the right to vote.

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An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family's tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. As Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a "long haul up a steep hill" to her polling place, she sees more than trees and sky-she sees her family's history. She sees the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and her great-grandfather voting for the first time. She sees her parents trying to register to vote. And she sees herself marching in a protest from Selma to Montgomery. Veteran bestselling picture-book author Jonah Winter and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner Shane W. Evans vividly recall America's battle for civil rights in this lyrical, poignant account of one woman's fierce determination to make it up the hill and make her voice heard. "Moving.... Stirs up a potent mixture of grief, anger, and pride at the history of black people's fight for access to the ballot box." -The New York Times "A much-needed picture book that will enlighten a new generation about battles won and a timely call to uphold these victories in the present." -Kirkus Reviews, Starred "A valuable introduction to and overview of the civil rights movement." -Publishers Weekly, Starred "An important book that will give you goose bumps." -Booklist, Starred

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Booklist starred (July 2015 (Vol. 111, No. 21)) (200 words; 1,250 chars)
Horn Book Magazine (September/October, 2015) (246 words; 1,555 chars)
Kirkus Reviews starred (May 1, 2015) (236 words; 1,472 chars)
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