Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780823429219)

The struggle for voting rights was a pivotal event in the history of civil rights.

For the fiftieth anniversary of the march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman has written a riveting account of African-American struggles for the right to vote.

In the early 1960s, tensions in the segrated South intensified. Tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. In January 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a voting rights march and was attacked by a segregationist. In February, the shooting of an unarmed demonstrator by an Alabama state trooper inspired a march from Selma to the state capital. The event got off to a horrific start on March 7 as law officers brutally attacked peaceful demonstrators. But when vivid footage and photographs of the violence was broadcast throughout the world, the incident attracted widespread outrage and spurred demonstrators to complete the march at any cost.

Illustrated with more than forty archival photographs, this is an essential chronicle of events every American should know.

A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Selection

Author: Russell Freedman
ISBN-10: 0823429210
ISBN-13: 9780823429219
Publisher: Holiday House
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2014
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 8.79h x 11.33w x 0.54d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.6
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 167606 / Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Bea Big Book Guide 05/15/2014 pg. 56
School Library Journal 08/01/2014 pg. 116
Booklist 08/01/2014 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly 08/18/2014
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2014
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2014 pg. 131
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2014 - Reviewed - More Editing Needed
Kirkus Best Middle Grade Books 11/15/2014 pg. 83
PW Children's Starred Reviews 12/01/2014 pg. 79
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2015
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2015 pg. 15
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2015 - Superior,Well Above Average