Lillian's Right to Vote

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Author(s) Jonah Winter
Illustrator(s) Shane W. Evans
Age Group 5-9
Publisher Schwartz & Wade
ISBN 978-0385390286
Year 2015
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An elderly African American woman, on her way to vote, remembers her family’s tumultuous voting history. As Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a “long haul up a steep hill” to her polling place, she sees more than trees and sky—she sees her family’s history. She sees the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and her great-grandfather voting for the first time. She sees her parents trying to register to vote. And she sees herself marching in a protest from Selma to Montgomery. This book recalls the battle for civil rights in an account of one woman’s fierce determination to make it up the hill and make her voice heard.

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