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The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist

Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks intended to go places and do things like anybody else. So when she heard grown-ups talk about wiping out Birmingham's segregation laws, she spoke up. As she listened to the preacher's words, smooth as glass, she sat up tall. And when she heard the plan -- picket those white stores! March to protest those unfair laws! Fill the jails! -- she stepped right up and said, "I'll do it!" She was going to j-a-a-il!

Audrey Faye Hendricks was confident and bold and brave as can be, and hers is the remarkable and inspiring story of one child's role in the Civil Rights Movement. Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this moving picture book that proves you're never too little to make a difference.

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"Digital collage illustrations show a young, pigtailed Audrey and her family mostly smiling and happy leading up to the march — she even brings a new board game to pass the time. Pictures and words combine to depict the discomfort of Hendricks's actual experience: loneliness, unpalatable food, angry white interrogators, and even solitary confinement. Like young Audrey, readers will be relieved when her weeklong sentence is up and she goes home to 'hot rolls, baptized in butter,' and the promise of a brighter future." — Kathleen Isaacs, School Library Journal

Product Details

Recommended Age 5 - 9
Author Cynthia Levinson
Illustrator Vanessa Brantley Newton
ISBN 1481400703
Publication Date Jan 17, 2017
Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language English