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The youngest marcher the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist Cynthia Levinson ; Illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: New York Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2017Description: 1 v. (unpaged) col. illISBN:
  • 9781481400701
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [E]
Online resources: Summary: 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.
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Textbook Textbook ECB - ÁGUAS CLARAS AIB Year 3 [E] MAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00058341AGC
Textbook Textbook ECB - SUDOESTE IB Year 3 [E] MAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00058337SSW
Textbook Textbook ECB - SUDOESTE IB Year 3 [E] MAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00058338SSW
Textbook Textbook ECB - SUDOESTE IB Year 3 [E] MAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00058339SSW
Livros Livros ECB - SUDOESTE IB Year 3 [E] MAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00053441SSW

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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.

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