Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

2015 • 127 pages

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15

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.

July 5, 2019