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.