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

    Written by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

    Narrated by Damaras Obi

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    About this audiobook

    A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes

    A Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor Book
    Kirkus     Best Books of 2015
    Booklist Editors' Choice 2015
    BCCB Blue Ribbon 2015

    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 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.

    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.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 2, 2017
    ISBN9781524779085
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    Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
    Author

    Lynda Blackmon Lowery

    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. 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. P J Loughran is an illustrator, creative director, and musician. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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