Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

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Label

Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

Title remainder

my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

Statement of responsibility

by Lynda Blackmon Lowery ; as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley ; illustrated by PJ Loughran

Title variation

Turning fifteen on the road to freedom

Creator

• Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950-

Contributor

• Leacock, Elspeth
• Loughran, PJ
• Buckley, Susan Washburn

Author

• Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950-

Contributor

• Leacock, Elspeth
• Buckley, Susan Washburn

Illustrator

• Loughran, PJ

Subject

• African Americans -- Suffrage -- Alabama | Selma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
• Alabama -- Selma
• Biographies
• Biographies
• Civil rights movements
• Civil rights movements -- Alabama | Selma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
• History
• Juvenile works
• Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950-
• Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950-
• Race relations
• 1900-1999
• Selma to Montgomery Rights March
• Selma to Montgomery Rights March, 1965, Selma, Ala. -- Juvenile literature
• Selma (Ala.) -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature
• African Americans -- Civil rights
• African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama | Selma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
• African Americans -- Suffrage

Genre

• Biographies
• Juvenile literature
• History
• Juvenile works

Language

eng

Summary

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

Awards note

Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book, 2016

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

323.1196/073076145

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Ages 12-17

LC call number

F334.S4

LC item number

L69 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Reading level

• 5.1.
• 4.7.

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Counts!

Target audience

juvenile