Get Out the Vote: Fighting for Voting Rights with Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Lynda Blackmon Lowery
On August 18, 2020, Making Caring Common hosted “Fighting for Voting Rights with Lynda Blackmon Lowery” as part of our Get Out the Vote: Voter Mobilization and Civic Education Series. This event was presented in collaboration with Facing History and Ourselves.
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Renowned civil rights leader Lynda Blackmon Lowery joined members of Making Caring Common's Youth Advisory Board for a conversation on the history of voting rights.
Lynda marched on “Bloody Sunday” and “Turn Around Tuesday,” and is the youngest marcher to walk every step of the successful march from Selma to Montgomery. Her involvement in the civil rights movement has been the foundation for her work throughout her life. She is the author of the illustrated memoir Turning 15 On The Road To Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March.
About the Speaker
Lynda Blackmon Lowery began her civil rights activism in Selma, Alabama, in the early 1960s, when the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) activists organized Lowery and other area children and teenagers to participate in the civil rights movement. She marched on “Bloody Sunday” and “Turn Around Tuesday,” and is the youngest marcher to walk every step of the successful March from Selma to Montgomery. Ms. Lowery’s early involvement in the struggle against prejudice has been the foundation for her civil and human rights work throughout her life. She retired as Senior Case Manager at Cahaba Metal Health in Selma and is the author of Turning 15 on The Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley.
About the Co-Presenter
Facing History and Ourselves believes the bigotry and hate that we witness today are the legacy of brutal injustices of the past. Facing our collective history and how it informs our attitudes and behaviors allows us to choose a world of equity and justice. Facing History’s resources address racism, antisemitism, and prejudice at pivotal moments in history; we help students connect choices made in the past to those they will confront in their own lives. Through our partnership with educators around the world, Facing History and Ourselves reaches millions of students in thousands of classrooms every year. Independent research studies show that experience in a Facing History classroom motivates students to become upstanders in their communities, whether by challenging negative stereotypes at the dinner table, standing up to a bully in their neighborhood, or registering to vote when they are eligible. Together we are creating the next generation of leaders who will build a world based on knowledge and compassion, the foundation for more democratic, equitable, and just societies.
About the Series
Get Out the Vote: Voter Mobilization and Civic Education Series is a new, non-partisan initiative designed to enable young people to become voter mobilization leaders.