On Sunday, the rising fifth-grader at Sunset Valley Elementary in Keller, TX, had a microphone lowered for her height as she spoke at the Be the Change Unity Rally in Kelly Ingram Park in downtown.
A few hundred people turned out for Sunday’s diverse event, the brainchild of rising Indian Springs School senior Jordyn Hudson, founder of Shape The Culture, sponsor of the event.
The aim of the rally was to bring together young people to protest and to rally for equity and against racism and inequality, Hudson said.
Carter Dewees, 18, a recent Vestavia Hills High grad, headed to Yale University, said Alabama is the state of former segregationist governor George Wallace.
Jordan Davis, a recent Morehouse College graduate, headed to grad school at Columbia University in New York City, cited the words of Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
