Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America
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Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America
By Russell Freedman
Edition
Hardcover edition
PublisherHoliday HouseImprintHoliday HouseISBN
9780823429219
Awards and HonorsKirkus 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
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.
Title alpha Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America
Level Nonfiction Middle
Pages Count 96
Genre Nonfiction
Topics Selma to Montgomery Rights March, 1965. Selma, Alabama. Race relations. African Americans. Civil rights. Suffrage. Twentieth-century U.S. history. Civil rights movement.
SRC Level 11.600000
SRC Points 6.000000
Lexile 1160L
Trim Size 11" x 8 1/2"
JLG Span Fall
Language English
Rights type Print
Publication date 2014-09-30
JLG Release Date Dec 2014
Minimum grade 5
Maximum grade 8
Reading level Middle
Format Print
Nonfiction Middle Grades 5-8)
Nonfiction Middle
Nonfiction Middle Grades 5-8)
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