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Gr 5 Up—One of the youngest participants in the 1965 voting rights march in Alabama, Lowery provides a moving first-person account of her experience. Through this thought-provoking volume, the picture of an incredibly courageous young woman emerges. Lowery effectively conveys the enormity of the injustices in her world and the danger th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Lowery offers a revealing look at a childhood spent in the midst of the civil rights movement. As a teenager, the Selma, Alabama, native was there to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out for black voting rights; she was tear-gassed and beaten on "Bloody Sunday" (as Lowery writes, in perhaps the understatement of the century, "It was not a good day to be around white people"); and she was among the three hundred people who marched from Selma to the Alabama State Capito...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

As told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley. As a teenager, Lowery heard Dr. King speak out for black voting rights; was beaten on "Bloody Sunday...Log In or Sign Up to Read More