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

by Russell Freedman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823429210
• ISBN13: 9780823429219
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher