A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes--now in paperback will an all-new discussion guide.
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 eleven 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.
| ISBN: | 9780147512161 |
| Publication date: | 27th December 2016 |
| Author: | Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Elspeth Leacock, Susan Buckley |
| Illustrator: | PJ Loughran |
| Publisher: | Speak an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 144 pages |
| Genres: |
History Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography |