Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Elspeth Leacock (Secondary Author), Susan Buckley (Secondary Author), and PJ Loughran (Illustrator)

A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes

A Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor Book
Kirkus Best Books of 2015
Booklist Editors' Choice 2015
BCCB Blue Ribbon 2015

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 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.

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.

• ISBN10: 0803741235
• ISBN13: 9780803741232
• Publish Date: 8 January 2015
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Dial Books for Young Readers,US
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 128
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780803741232

Reviews

[lovelybookshelf]

"The Selma movement was a kids movement." Lynda Blackmon Lowery was the youngest person (15) to march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. This perspective makes for a unique look at the civil rights movement. The audiobook narrator was so emotive! She brought the Bloody Sunday account out of history and into real time. You can hear her fear as well as her resolve. What an inspiring call to action; proof that kids, too, can affect change.