Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

by Jonah Winter

Book Overview

An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family's tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385390289
• ISBN13: 9780385390286
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 4