Youngest Marcher - The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist

Zusatztext "Having honest and open discussions about race, tolerance, and acceptance from a very early age can set the stage for a much broader and deeper understanding of these issues as your child grows. Here [is a book] that can help spark these conversations.... The story of the youngest known civil rights protester in history will teach children that you’re never too small to stand up for what you believe in." Informationen zum Autor Cynthia Levinson Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Levinson, Levinson Cynthia
• Assisted by: Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustration), Brantley-Newton Vanessa (Illustration), Vanessa Brantley Newton (Illustration)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 5
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781481400701
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-0070-1
• Dimensions: 260 mm x 260 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books; USA, 20th Century, History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, People & places (Children's / Teenage), United States of America, USA, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Relating to African American / Black American people, JUVENILE NONFICTION / African American & Black