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Format:

Book

Author:

Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950- author.

Title:

Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March / by Lynda Blackmon Lowery ; as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley ; illustrated by PJ Loughran.

Publisher, Date:

New York, New York : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015]

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.-- (Source of description not identified)

Target Audience Note:

Middle School.

780 Lexile

Subjects:

Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950-

Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.) -- Juvenile literature.

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.

Selma (Ala.) -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.

Other Author:

Leacock, Elspeth.

Buckley, Susan Washburn.

Loughran, PJ, illustrator.

Other Title:

Turning fifteen on the road to freedom

Beehive informational book award nominee, 2017-2018.

Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book, 2016.

Notes:

Accelerated Reader 5.1

Reading Counts! 4.7

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?

LCCN:

2013047316

ISBN:

9780803741232 (hbk.)

0803741235 (hbk.)

Other Number:

869458501

System Availability:

7

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

7

Control Number:

515774

# Local items in:

7

# System items in:

7

Call Number:

j 323.1196 Lowery