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Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America
Written by Russell Freedman
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For the 50th anniversary of the march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, comes a riveting account of this pivotal event in the history of civil rights.
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Russell Freedman
Russell Freedman (1929-2018) received the Newbery Medal for Lincoln: A Photobiography. He was the recipient of three Newbery Honors, a National Humanities Medal, the Sibert Medal, the Orbis Pictus Award, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and was selected to give the 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. Mr. Freedman lived in New York City and traveled widely to research his books.
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