Elizabeth Partridge's Marching For Freedom

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Recommended: Describe the march from Selma to Montgomery

“White bystanders waited on the frontage road, shouting and jeering…” This took place during 1965 on the March Of Freedom. Non fiction really grabs society and tells the truth about it. This is what life was like for the blacks back in the 60s. They were mistreated every day so they had to take a stand. In regular fiction, you can tape suction cups to your shoes and climb up building, while in non fiction it’s less luxurys. Everything is basically based off facts in Nonfiction. In Marching for Freedom, Elizabeth Partridge portrays reality by writing about how blacks were treated back then. Nonfiction can successfully illustrate a sense of humanity and the purpose of society. “Hundreds of men, women, and children had been protesting in Selma

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