The Youngest Marcher

CYNTHIA LEVINSON | VANESSA BRANTLEY NEWTON

  • English

  • Black Civil Rights, protest, child incarceration, anti-Black racism

  • Pre Kindergarten +

Nine-year-old Audrey 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, 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! 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.