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 great-grandfather voting for the first time. She sees her parents trying to register to vote. And she sees herself marching in a protest from Selma to Montgomery. Veteran bestselling picture-book author Jonah Winter and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner Shane W. Evans vividly recall America s battle for civil rights in this lyrical, poignant account of one woman s fierce determination to make it up the hill and make her voice heard.
"Moving.... Stirs up a potent mixture of grief, anger, and pride at the history of black people s fight for access to the ballot box." "The New York Times"
"A much-needed picture book that will enlighten a new generation about battles won and a timely call to uphold these victories in the present." "Kirkus Reviews, " Starred
"A valuable introduction to and overview of the civil rights movement." "Publishers Weekly, " Starred
"An important book that will give you goose bumps." "Booklist, " Starred"