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title: "Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March"
description: "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...."
url: https://bookwi.se/turning-15-on-the-road-to-freedom/
date: 2019-08-14
modified: 2019-08-14
author: "Adam Shields"
categories: ["Book Reviews"]
type: post
lang: en
---

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

[![Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/22504709.jpg)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22504709-turning-15-on-the-road-to-freedom)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 checked it out of my library when I was looking for something quick.

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 student older than that up to about 7th-8th graders.

**Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March Purchase Links: [Paperback](https://www.amazon.com/Turning-15-Road-Freedom-Voting/dp/0147512166/), [Kindle Edition](https://www.amazon.com/Turning-15-Road-Freedom-Voting-ebook/dp/B00KWG9J3Q/), [Audible.com Audiobook](https://www.amazon.com/Turning-15-Road-Freedom-Voting/dp/B071CYYDW1/) **