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We had sneakers, they had guns : the kids who fought for civil rights in Mississippi / Tracy Sugarman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sugarman, Tracy, 1921-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights workers--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Civil rights workers.
- Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Mississippi--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Mississippi.
- Sugarman, Tracy, 1921-.
- Sugarman, Tracy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Syruacuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 apartheid-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 rights for a century. Blending oral history with memoir, this draws the reader into the lives of Sugarman's subjects, showing the passion and naivete of the volunteers, 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.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The long, hot summer, 1964
- pt. 2. Return to the delta
- pt. 3. The roads from the delta
- pt. 4. Mississippi, October 2001.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9780815651062
- 0815651066
- OCLC:
- 759158743
- Publisher Number:
- heb40059 hdl
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