The youngest marcher: The story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist
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Title
The youngest marcher: The story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist
Description
Audrey is a very confident and brave nine-year-old girl who knows all about segregation. She sees how others treat black people, and she wants to speak up and go to places like anybody else. After a church service, Audrey volunteers to go to jail to make a statement about freedom. Jail was quite hard, and the food was awful. After five days, Audrey is released to go home. Two months later, the City of Birmingham Alabama wipes segregation laws off the books. From then on, Audrey Faye Hendricks is known as the "Civil Rights Queen" and the youngest known marcher in the Children's March in May 1963. Audrey can now enjoy her ice cream at the parlor counter like everybody else.
Author
Levinson, Cynthia
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Date
2017
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Illustrator
Vanessa Brantley Newton
ISBN
9 781481 400701
City of Publication
New York
Year of Publication
2017
Author of Abstract
Abstract provided by Valerie A. Ubbes, 2024
Citation
Levinson, Cynthia, “The youngest marcher: The story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist,” Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University, accessed April 3, 2025, https://dlp.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/items/show/14341.