Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
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A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes--now in paperback will an all-new discussion guide.
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 eleven 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.
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
By Lynda Blackmon Lowery
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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 eleven 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.
ISBN
9780147512161
Pages
144 pages
Publisher
Penguin
Published
Dec 27, 2016
Language
en
Cover type
Paperback
Book details
- Authors
- Lynda Blackmon Lowery
- ISBN
- 9780147512161
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Binding
- Paperback
- Published
- Dec 27, 2016
- Publication year
- 2016
- Pages
- 144
- Dimensions
- 8.31 in × 0.21 in × 5.56 in
- Language
- en
- Categories
- Young Adult NonfictionHistoryUnited States20th CenturySocial TopicsPrejudice & RacismBiography & AutobiographySocial Activists