Voices From the Civil Rights Movement: Lynda Blackmon Lowery

To celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is pleased to share a special series of one-on-one conversations with 1960s civil rights activists. This final installment features author Lynda Blackmon Lowery. An Alabama native dedicated to civil rights since childhood, Lowery was arrested nine times prior to her fifteenth birthday. After being brutally beaten in Selma on “Bloody Sunday,” March 7, 1965, she was the youngest among the 300 civil rights activists to complete the five-day, 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. Lowery is author of the award-winning children’s book, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom (2015). This interview was recorded via Zoom on October 27, 2021. This interview may contain harsh language and descriptions of violence and may experience occasion technical difficulties.
All interviews featured in the “Voices from the Civil Rights Movement” series are part of the ongoing Oral History Project at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. More than 2,000 interviews have been recorded to date, exploring the history and culture of the 1960s as well as the life, death and legacy of President John F. Kennedy. If you are interested in researching or participating in the Oral History Project, please contact [e-mail]. To see related films, photos, documents and oral histories from The Sixth Floor Museum's collection, visit our online collections database (emuseum.jfk.org).

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To those in DFW, the children's museum in Fort Worth has a exhibit about the Green Book. I never seen one even though I owned a used bookstore from 1990-1995, I hope to see the exhibit.

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Nice lady, I talked with her a couple times on the phone.

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