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 historyAs 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 1900-1999 African Americans Civil rights African Americans Civil rights Alabama Selma History 20th century African Americans Civil rights Alabama Selma History 20th century Juvenile literature African Americans Suffrage African Americans Suffrage Alabama Selma History 20th century African Americans Suffrage Alabama Selma History 20th century Juvenile literature Alabama Selma Biographies Civil rights movements Civil rights movements Alabama Selma History 20th century Civil rights movements Alabama Selma History 20th century Juvenile literature History Juvenile works Literature Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950- Mouvements des droits de l’homme Alabama Selma Histoire 20e siècle Mouvements des droits de l’homme Alabama Selma Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Noirs américains Droits Alabama Selma Histoire 20e siècle Noirs américains Droits Alabama Selma Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Noirs américains Suffrage Alabama Selma Histoire 20e siècle Noirs américains Suffrage Alabama Selma Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Race relations Selma (Ala.) Race relations Selma (Ala.) Race relations Juvenile literature Selma to Montgomery Rights March Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.) Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.) Juvenile literature Young adult literature Young adult non-fiction(Non-Fiction, Young Adult)
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
