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.
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A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes--now in paperback will an all-new discussion guide.
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ISBN–13: 9780147512161
Publisher: Speak
Publication Date: Dec-2016
Pages: 144
Lexile Level: 0780
Ages: 12 - UP