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Overview
During "Freedom Summer" 1964, white college students from the North traveled to Mississippi to help with voter registration, living with black families and taking orders from battle-tested "field secretaries" of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Their story - one of personal conflict, confrontational politics, communal living, interracial sex, and idealism put to the test of violent opposition - changed America forever. The Children Bob Moses Led blends fiction and fact to recreate the year between the "I-have-a-dream-we-shall-overcome" optimism of the March on Washington and the debacle of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. The alternating voices of Bob Moses, the charismatic and enigmatic leader of the Mississippi Summer Project, and Tom Morton, a fictional white college student who has volunteered to teach in a Freedom School and to help register black voters, shape this vibrant novel and give insight into the private lives and public events that brought blacks and whites together and turned idealism into reality.When a fever confines eleven-year-old Paul to bed, he folds paper to create imaginary playmates and to transport himself into other worlds. Includes instructions for paper folding.
Editorials
Library Journal
In this historical novel, Tom Morton, an idealistic white college student, enthusiastically joins the Civil Rights movement. Under the direction of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Tom travels to Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964. There he helps disenfranchised black citizens register to vote amid hostility and violence from local racists. In alternating chapters, Tom and his hero, real-life Mississippi Summer Project leader Bob Moses, detail the drama, danger, and exhilaration of the times from their respective viewpoints as movement volunteer and spellbinding leader. Together their narratives create an overview of a crucial period in U.S. history. Though sometimes marred by clichs and seemingly interchangeable supporting characters, the book maintains an impressive level of historical accuracy. Heath (The Walking Man, Icarus Bks., 1994) shares some of his decade of research in a useful bibliography. Buy where subject coverage is comprehensive.-Starr E. Smith, Marymount Univ., Arlington, Va.Book Details
Published
October 1, 1995
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pages
336
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781571310088