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The youngest marcher : the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist  Cover Image Book Book

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

Levinson, Cynthia, (author.). Brantley-Newton, Vanessa, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this 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!

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781481400701
  • ISBN: 1481400703
  • Physical Description: 38 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York ; Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 5-10.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader LG 3.9 0.5 188863.
Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.9 0.5 188863.
Subject: Hendricks, Audrey Faye > Juvenile literature.
Hendricks, Audrey Faye.
Hendricks, Audrey Faye.
African American civil rights workers > Alabama > Birmingham > Biography > Pictorial works > Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers > Alabama > Birmingham > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
African American women civil rights workers.
Civil rights workers.
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Biography.
Women > Biography.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Biography & Autobiography > Social Activists.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > United States > History > 20th Century.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > People & Places > United States > African American.
Littérature pour la jeunesse anglaise.
Livres illustrés pour enfants.
African Americans > Birmingham (Ala.) > Biography.
Civil rights workers > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > Birmingham (Ala.) > History.
Civil rights movements > History.
Race relations.
Civil rights workers.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American civil rights workers.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Race relations > Juvenile literature.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Race relations.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Biography.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Race relations.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Biography.
Alabama > Birmingham.
Genre: Biographies.
Juvenile works.
Biographies.
Juvenile works.
Picture books.
Biographies.

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Homer Public Library JB HENDRICKS (Text) 000149853 Children's Library -- Biography Checked out 04/25/2024

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The Youngest Marcher : The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
The Youngest Marcher : The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
by Levinson, Cynthia; Brantley-Newton, Vanessa (Illustrator)
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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. "A significant portrayal of Audrey Faye Hendricks and the Children's March." -- School Library Journal, November 2016 "Levinson returns to the subject of We've Got a Job as she recounts, for a younger audience, the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks and her role in the 1963 Children's March in Birmingham, Ala. Moving briskly through events, Levinson explains how the young Hendricks was eager to stand up to segregation, marching alongside thousands of fellow students, who were subsequently arrested. Newton's bright, digitally assembled collages adeptly highlight the danger of the situation--grim cells, barbed-wire fences, children blasted with fire hoses--while emphasizing the power of the marchers' collective efforts to push back against injustice." -- Publishers Weekly, December 2016 "Audrey's third-person perspective is well represented and storytold, with short, punchy sentences especially vivid in conveying individual testimony and movement goals." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, February 2017 "It's one of the more shocking and little-known stories of the civil rights movement: In 1963, the City of Birmingham jailed hundreds of kids for joining the Children's March. Among them was 7-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks, taken from her family to spend a week behind bars, eating "oily grits" and sleeping on a bare mattress. Levinson and Newton keep her story bright and snappy, emphasizing the girl's eagerness to make a difference and her proud place in her community." -- The New York Times Book Review, February 12, 2017 "[This book] can introduce even the youngest children to the idea of rebellion in an age-appropriate and inspiring way. Give the princesses and pirates a rest and try these inspiring reads--just don't be surprised if bedtime negotiations rise to a new level. Every activist has to start somewhere!.... The book tells the true story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, who was arrested at a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Ala., when she was 9 years old. In it, Audrey is introduced to stories about the Ku Klux Klan and police brutality, and she decides to join the protest. The compelling story about white supremacy and the civil rights era illustrates the courage and personal sacrifice that activism requires, and teaches kids why it matters." -- The Washington Post, "The best books for raising activist kids," March 10, 2017

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