Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March, by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley, illustrated by P.J. Loughran published in 2015 by Dial Books I’ve been …
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nonfiction nuggets…the tragedy and triumph of Selma
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Get Weary, by Elizabeth Partridge In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, eight-year-old children were arrested and jailed; 10-year-olds were jolted with electric cattle prods; twelve-year-olds and fourteen-year-olds were clubbed in the mouth, …
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