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

by Tracy Sugarman

Book Overview

No one experienced the 1964 Freedom Summer 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815609388
• ISBN13: 9780815609384
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"