The Road from Selma: special BHM author talk

The Road From Selma For families with children in 5th grade and up. Drop in Authors Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley will read from their Young Adult Memoir Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March, in which Lynda Blackmon Lowery recounts her story of the 1965 Selma Montgomery Voting Rights March. The talk will include photographs, and archival film footage as the authors share Ms. Lowery\'s experiences growing up in Alabama, participating in the voting rights movement, and being the youngest person to make the full march from Selma to Montgomery. [words] Bookstore will sell copies of the book at the event. Thursday, February 19 @ 7:00 pm Main Library