The National Civil Rights Museum will continue its 2024-2025 Teacher Workshop series with this session which connects past to present in ways that encourage and inspire students toward civic engagement. Join us virtually, as we explore the stories of young foot soldiers who marched for freedom and equality in Selma, Alabama. We will hear from courageous freedom fighter, Ms. Lynda Blackmon Lowery as she recounts memories from pivotal moments in Civil Rights history.

Background on the text, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom:

As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed eleven times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of African Americans. In this memoir, she shows today’s young readers what it means to fight nonviolently even when the police are using violence, as in the Bloody Sunday protest and how it felt to be part of changing American history.

MSCS teachers will receive credits in PLZ. We will share a variety of resources that will be useful for teaching about the Selma Marches in classrooms for K-12 students. This workshop is FREE and is part of the National Civil Rights Museum’s effort to inspire educators and schools to teach courageously and to create more inclusive learning environments.