num_pages: 40
description: Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham Alabama 1963 in this moving picture book that proves youre 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 Birminghams segregation laws she spoke up. As she listened to the preachers words smooth as glass she sat up tall. And when she heard the planpicket those white stores! March to protest those unfair laws! Fill the jails!she stepped right up and said Ill 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 childs role in the Civil Rights Movement.
language: English
title: The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers