Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
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Lynda Blackmon Lowery, civil rights activist and the youngest person on the 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, shares her story. The coauthors are Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley.
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This is a short children/middle grade memoir of the Selma voting rights protests. Most of the focus is on the march which lasted a couple of days. But there is context that starts a few months prior.
The audiobook is just over an hour, so this is very short.
I think it is a good intro to Civil Rights history as a first person narrative by a young person. So would be worth reading out loud or with kids starting in about 3-4th grade and probably could be read independently with discussion for 7th-8th graders.
