Watch a reading of “Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965” written by bestselling picture-book author Jonah Winter and illustrated by Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner Shane W. Evans.
The story follows Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, who 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.
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