Stranger at the Gates: A Summer in Mississippi

by Tracy Sugarman and Tracy (Fannie Lou Hamer Foreword) Sugarman

Book Overview

During the summer of 1964, over one thousand people, including many college students went to Mississippi as part of a state wide effort to register African-American voters and to establish teaching centers that became known as "Freedom Schools."

Participants began their training at a college campus in Ohio. Motivated by a strong sense of social justice, Tracy Sugarman, an artist and commercial illustrator from Westport, Connecticut, joined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935212842
• ISBN13: 9781935212843
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Prospecta Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.3"