Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

Title: Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

Author: Lynda Blackmon Lowery as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley

Illustrator: PJ Loughran

Lynda Blackmon Lowery grew up in Selma, Alabama in the 1960s. She participated in the Children’s March and was the youngest marcher in the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March. Because of her participation in these peaceful protests, police took her to jail nine-times before she turned fifteen. While she was fifteen, she joined one of the longest Civil Rights marches, the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March. This march started in Selma, Alabama, and ended in Montgomery, Alabama. This book tells her story of the imprisonment and marches, but also express the anxieties and other emotions that she felt during this time. I’d highly recommend this book for its historical value, but also it allows you to walk in her shoes, so you can understand a few of the emotions that accompany this movement.