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

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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
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written by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley, illustrated by PJ Loughran, and published by Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
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“By the time I was fifteen years old, I had been in jail nine times.” So begins Lowery’s highly personal account of the historic 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery. Revealing a dramatic story with diverse visual images, this heroic tale gives voice to activists participating in Civil Rights history. 

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