Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March (Lynda Blackmon Lowery)

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 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. (from amazon.com)

Where can I find it?: Lower/Middle School library, Lithgow building

Tags: Alabama--Selma; Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950-; Civil rights movements; Race relations; Selma to Montgomery Rights March; African Americans--Civil rights; African Americans--Suffrage