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Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America

By Russell Freedman
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Holiday House Imprint Holiday House ISBN

9780823429219

Awards and Honors Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014, Middle-Grade Books; Booklist Editors’ Choice 2014, Nonfiction, Older Readers; Booklist Lasting Connections 2014, Social Studies; Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature, Best Multicultural Books of 2014; Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People - 2015, Third to Fifth Grade; Booklist Top 10 Multicultural Nonfiction for Youth, 2015; ALA Notable Books for Children 2015, Older Readers

Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America

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Language: Racial or Ethnic Epithet/Slur,Violence: Mild Violence

March 21, 1965: “This is a great day to be alive,” exclaimed Sister Mary Leoline, one of thousands marching fifty-four miles from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to support the Voting Rights Act. Time line. Source notes. Selected bibliography. Index. Black-and-white photographs.
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