Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (806 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803741235 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cindy Garcia said Excellent book. My daughter read this book driving from Montgomery to selma on a civil rights tour. She loved the book and felt she understood the struggle, cause, and amazement of the movement. She is 10 years old. We bought an extra one later for a donation to the school library.. Fabulous autobiography! Amazing story that captures the life of a black girl in the '60s beautifully. Awesome side stories in the back of the book that helps you understand better.. Five Stars DLTS - HCC Excellent
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. Jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroesA Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor BookKirkus Best Books of 2015Booklist Editors' Choice 2015BCCB Blue Ribbon 2015As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. 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 y
P J Loughran is an illustrator, creative director, and musician. Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley have collaborated on several previous history and geography books for young people. Elspeth lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Susan lives in New York City. . Lynda Blackmon Lowery, the youngest person to take part in the whole Selma to Montgomery March, now works as a case manager at a mental health center, and still lives in Selma, Alabama. He lives in Chicago, Illinois
Lowery shows what people, including children, are capable of when they stand together. Lowery effectively conveys the enormity of the injustices in her world and the danger that those she knew encountered daily. This is an honest, powerful historical work, straight from the source.—Heather Acerro, Rochester Public Library, MN . The illustrations are a mix of photographs and cartoonish drawings, which bring a graphic novel-like feel to this memoir. Through this thought-provoking volume, the picture of an incredibly courageou