The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
* Carter G. Woodson Award! NAACP Image Award Finalist! Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year! Crystal Kite Award! Julia Ward Howe Award! *
In May 1963, 3,000 to 4,000 elementary and high school students marched to protest segregation and get arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama. Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks was the youngest.
“…a book bound to be remembered in the pantheon of historical child heroes”
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