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A memoir of the civil rights movement from one of its youngest heroes A Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor Book Kirkus Best Literature of 2015 Booklist Editors' Choice 2015 BCCB Blue Ribbon 2015 As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that adults can be heroes. Jailed nine times before her 15th birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King Jr. for the rights of African People in america. On this memoir she shows today's young listeners what it means to combat nonviolently (even when the police are using violence, just as the Bloody Sunday protest) and how it felt to participate changing American background. Straightforward and inspiring, this memoir brings listeners in to the middle of the civil rights movements, complementing Common Center class room learning and providing background alive for young listeners.
