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

Large format picture book tells the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, age 9, who was one of 3000 children arrested in Birmingham in 1963 and sent to jail for participating in the Children's March.

Until this book I never knew there was a children’s march in Alabama for the Civil Rights Movement. When adults were too scared or set in their ways, the children did what was needed. They marched and they went to jail. Audrey Faye Hendricks was one of these marchers. She was the youngest one,

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and she spent a week in jail for even daring to ask to be treated like others. This wonderful story is amazing, and it should be taught in schools. This is something that should be in school history books, not left out as if civil rights was only an adult problem.

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This was a story I had not yet heard, of a 9 year old who went to jail as part of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham. Powerful story, in a nice, concise format. Well done.