Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
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Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950-
Contributors
Leacock, Elspeth, contributor.
Buckley, Susan Washburn, contributor.
Loughran, PJ, illustrator.
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Juvenile Collection - 3rd Floor
F334.S4 L69 2015
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Selma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Selma -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Suffrage -- Alabama -- Selma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
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Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Selma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Selma -- History -- 20th century.
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Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, -- 1950-
Selma (Ala.) -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
Selma (Ala.) -- Race relations.
Selma to Montgomery Rights March -- (1965 : -- Selma, Ala.) -- Juvenile literature.
Young adult literature.
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African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- Suffrage.
Alabama -- Selma.
Biographies.
Civil rights movements.
History.
Juvenile works.
Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, -- 1950-
Race relations.
Selma to Montgomery Rights March.
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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.
Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, -- 1950-
Mouvements des droits de l'homme -- Alabama -- Selma -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme -- Alabama -- Selma -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
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Noirs américains -- Droits -- Alabama -- Selma -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Noirs américains -- Suffrage -- Alabama -- Selma -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Noirs américains -- Suffrage -- Alabama -- Selma -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Selma (Ala.) -- Race relations.
Selma to Montgomery Rights March -- (1965 : -- Selma, Ala.)
Selma to Montgomery Rights March -- (1965 : -- Selma, Ala.) -- Juvenile literature.
Young adult non-fiction.

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Book
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English

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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 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.
Target Audience
Ages 12-17.
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Accelerated Reader,5.1.
Study Program Information
Reading Counts!,4.7.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,MG,5.1,1,171644.
Awards
Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book, 2016
Awards
Jane Addams Children's Book Award, 2016
Awards
American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project, 2016
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SACFinal081324

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Lowery, L. B., Leacock, E., Buckley, S. W., & Loughran, P. (2015). Turning 15 on the road to freedom: my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March . Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lynda Blackmon Lowery et al.. 2015. Turning 15 On the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March. New York: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lynda Blackmon Lowery et al.. Turning 15 On the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March New York: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Lowery, L. B., Leacock, E., Buckley, S. W. and Loughran, P. (2015). Turning 15 on the road to freedom: my story of the 1965 selma voting rights march. New York: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, Elspeth Leacock, Susan Washburn Buckley, and PJ Loughran. Turning 15 On the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015.

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