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

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.

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 01/17/2017
ISBN: 9781481400701
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 10.25h x 10.30w x 0.40d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 11/01/2016 pg. 116
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2016
Publishers Weekly 12/12/2016
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2017
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2017 pg. 118

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 188863 / Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
Reading Level: 3.9 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5