Cynthia Levinson

The Youngest Marcher (eBook, ePUB)

The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
Illustrator: Brantley-Newton, Vanessa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 planpicket 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 40
• Altersempfehlung: ab 5 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781481400718
• Artikelnr.: 45424105

Autorenporträt

Cynthia Levinson is the author of nonfiction books for young readers that focus on social justice, including The Youngest Marcher, The People's Painter, and Fault Lines in the Constitution. Her books have received the Sibert Medal, the Carter G. Woodson Book Award, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and numerous other honors. She has two daughters, two sons-in-law, four grandchildren, and two grand-dogs-all of whom are thoroughly splendid. Cynthia and her husband divide their time between Austin and Boston, which, helpfully, rhyme, in case she gets lost.