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Author Freedman, Russell.

Title Because they marched : the people's campaign for voting rights that changed America / Russell Freedman.

Imprint New York : Holiday House, [2015]
©2014

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  323.1196 Freedman    ---  Available
Description 83 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-80) and index.
Contents The day the teachers marched -- "White folks' business" -- Selma's students lead the way -- "March, dammit!" -- Bloody Sunday -- Turnaround Tuesday -- A good day to be alive -- Because they marched.
Indexed In: School Library Journal, August 2014
Booklist starred, August 2014
Pub Weekly, August 2014
Kirkus Starred, September 2014
Horn Book, April 2015
Bulletin (Center for Children's books), January 2015
Christian Library, January 2015
Summary Provides an account of the march for African American voting rights led by Dr. Martin Luther King in January 1965.
Audience 7.7.
5-8 Follett School Solutions.
1160 Lexile.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.6 3.0 167606. 9
Subject Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
African Americans -- Suffrage -- History.
Civil rights movements -- History.
Selma (Ala.) -- Race relations.
ISBN 9780823435685

 
    
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