Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Author:Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2014-12-02T00:00:00+00:00


March 21 was Day One of the march and I was proud. We had finally won something. We won the right to march down the highway and be protected. The day was cloudy and misty, but the crowd at Brown Chapel was full of joy.

Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta, were there and so were many others. Dr. King talked to the crowd about the importance of what we were about to do, but I wasn’t listening. I just knew I was on my way to Montgomery to show George Wallace how he had hurt me. My stitches had been taken out, but the back of my head was still all shaved and bandaged and there was a smaller bandage over my eye. It was enough for him to see.



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