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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Illustrator: P. J. Loughran

Ages: 9+

Published: 2015

Publisher: Dial BFYR/Penguin

ISBN: 978-0-8037-4123-2

Keywords: Civil Rights, African Americans

Lynda Blackmon recounts the summer of 1965 when she was the youngest marcher in the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, voting rights march. Photographs and graphic illustrations.