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Subject(s)

• Lowery, Lynda Blackmon 1950- [Browse]
• Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 Selma, Ala.)—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• African Americans—Civil rights—Alabama—Selma—History—20th century—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• African Americans—Suffrage—Alabama—Selma—History—20th century—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Civil rights movements—Alabama—Selma—History—20th century—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Selma (Ala.)—Race relations—Juvenile literature [Browse]

Contributor

• Leacock, Elspeth [Browse]
• Buckley, Susan Washburn [Browse]

Illustrator

• Loughran, PJ [Browse]

Summary note

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 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.

Target audience

Ages 12-17.

Study program information

• Accelerated Reader 5.1.
• Reading Counts! 4.7.

Awards

Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book, 2016

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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Other title(s)

Turning fifteen on the road to freedom

ISBN

• 0147512166 (paperback)
• 9780147512161 (paperback)

LCCN

2013047316

OCLC

946058583

International Article Number

• 9780147512161

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