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Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the Selma Voting Rights March
Publication Information
New York : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015.
Physical Description
127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary
A 50th-anniversary tribute shares the story of the youngest person to complete the momentous Selma to Montgomery March, describing her frequent imprisonments for her participation in nonviolent demonstrations and how she felt about her involvement in historic Civil Rights events.
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?
Subjects
- African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- African Americans > Suffrage > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights movements > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century.
- African Americans > Suffrage > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century.
- Civil rights movements > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century.
- Selma (Ala.) > Race relations > Juvenile literature.
- Selma (Ala.) > Race relations.
- Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.) > Juvenile literature.
- Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
- Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950-