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The Youngest Marcher
by Cynthia Levison
Illustrator: Vanessa Brantley Newton
Ages: 6+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Atheneum BFYR/ Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-4814-0070-1
Keywords: Civil Rights, African Americans
Nine-year-old Audrey joins the 1963 Birmingham Children's March to protest segregation, followed by a week spent in jail. Lively, retro-style digital collage illustrations. Back matter.