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From the author of the award-winning The Youngest Marcher comes a
picture book about the true story of Alfredo Lopez, an undocumented
boy involved in a landmark Supreme Court case that still ensures
children's right to education today. Alfredo Lopez has so many
questions before starting second grade! Will his friends be in his
class? Will his teacher speak Spanish? But then his parents tell
him that he has to stay home, and Alfredo's questions change. Why
can't he go to school with the other kids? And why is his family
going to the courthouse? In 1977, the school district of Tyler,
Texas, informed parents that, unless they could provide proof of
citizenship, they would have to pay for their children to attend
public school. Four undocumented families fought back in a legal
battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court. Alfredo was one
of the students involved in Plyler v. Doe, which made a difference
for children all over the country for years to come.
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.
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