Lynda Blackmon Lowery's 'Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Jan 18, 2021

[REBROADCAST FROM JANUARY 21, 2019] Lynda Blackmon Lowery joins us to discuss her book, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March, which has been adapted into a play of the same name. The book and play detail what it was like to be the youngest person to participate in the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March.



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