Text copyright © 2015 by Jonah Winter
Jacket art and interior illustrations copyright © 2015 by Shane W. Evans

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Winter, Jonah.

Lillian’s right to vote : a celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 / Jonah Winter ; illustrator Shane Evans. —
First edition.

pages cm.

Summary: As an elderly woman, Lillian recalls that her great-great-grandparents were sold as slaves in front of a courthouse where only rich white men were allowed to vote, then the long fight that led to her right—and determination—to cast her ballot since the Voting Rights Act gave every American the right to vote.

ISBN 978-0-385-39028-6 (alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-385-39029-3 (glb : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-385-39030-9 (ebk)

[1. Voting—Fiction. 2. African Americans—History—Fiction.] I. Evans, Shane, illustrator. II. Title.

PZ7.W75477Lil 2015

The illustrations were rendered in mixed media.

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