Page 1:Page 2: On Thursday morning, May 2, 1963, nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks woke up with freedom on her mind. But, before she could be free, there was something important she had to do.

“I want to go to jail,” Audrey had told her mother.

Since Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks thought that was a good idea, they helped her get ready. Her father had even bought her a new game she’d been eyeing. Audrey imagined that it would entertain her if she got bored during her week on a cell block.

That morning, her mother took her to Center Street Elementary so she could tell her third-grade teacher why she’d be absent. Mrs. Wills cried. Audrey knew she was proud of her.

She also hugged all her grandparents goodbye.

One of her grandmothers assured her, “You’ll be fine.”

Then Audrey’s parents drove her to the church to get arrested.

—We’ve Got a Job,
Cynthia Levinson

What can connecting the stories of Audrey and Wash help readers understand about the children of Birmingham, Alabama?

All children were too afraid of the police to do anything about racism.
The older children knew more about the march than the young children did.
Some children knew about the march, but others did not.
All children knew about the march.