We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Sugarman, Tracy
We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Sugarman, Tracy

We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi

No one experienced the Freedom Summer of 1964 quite like Tracy Sugarman. As an illustrator and journalist,...
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We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Sugarman, Tracy

We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi

$79.15
We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Sugarman, Tracy

We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi

$79.15
Author: Tracy Sugarman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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No one experienced the Freedom Summer of 1964 quite like Tracy Sugarman. As an illustrator and journalist, Sugarman covered the nearly one thousand student volunteers who traveled to the Mississippi Delta to assist black citizens in the South in registering to vote. He interviewed these activists, along with local civil rights leaders and black and white residents not directly involved in the movement, and drew the people and events that made the summer one of the most heroic chapters in America's long march toward racial justice.

In We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns, Sugarman chronicles the sacrifices, tragedies, and triumphs of that unprecedented moment in our nation's history. Two white students and one black student were slain in the struggle, many were beaten and hundreds arrested, and churches and homes were burned to the ground by the opponents of equality. Yet the example of Freedom Summer--whites united with heroic black Mississippians to challenge segregation--resonated across the nation. The United States Congress was finally moved to pass the civil rights legislation that enfranchised the millions of black Americans who had been waiting for equal equal rights for a century. Blending oral history with memoir, We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns draws the reader into the lives of the activists, showing their passion and na vet , the bravery of the civil rights leaders, and the candid, sometimes troubling reactions of the black and white Delta residents. Sugarman's unique reportorial art, in word and image, makes this book a vital record of our nation's past.

Author: Tracy Sugarman
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 07/08/2009
Pages: 354
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780815609384


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2009 pg. 87
Choice 10/01/2009
Multicultural Review 12/01/2009 pg. 65
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 56

About the Author
Tracy Sugarman is a nationally recognized illustrator whose art has appeared in magazines and books, and has been featured on PBS, ABC TV, NBC TV, and CBS TV. His entire collection of art from World War II has been acquired by the U.S. Library of Congress. He is the author of Stranger at the Gates: A Summer in Mississippi, My War: A Love Story in Letters and Drawings, and Drawing Conclusions: An Artist Discovers His America, the latter published by Syracuse University Press.
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