Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom - Biography by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Storyboard Tekst
- Growing up strong and determined
- MLK Inspires Lynda
- Jailbirds
- Lynda was born in Selma, Alabama in 1950. Her mother died when she was young and her grandmother moved in to help her dad raise the kids.
- Jimmie Lee Jackson
- In 1965, her grandmother took her to church to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak. He talked about marches and peaceful protests.
- Bloody Sunday
- Lynda and her friends skipped school many times to march through town in protest of the discrimination the black people in her community faced. A couple of times she ended up in jail.
- Road to Montgomery
- The death of a young black boy in the community next to Selma, encouraged more and more people to protest.
- At one of the marches, Lynda was tear-gassed, beaten, dragged and chased across the bridge that they were marching on.
- The people of Selma organized a march to Montgomery, Alabama. Lynda was the youngest to march to the state capitol for the right to vote.
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