Wednesday, June 17 Noon
McManus Room
In We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi, Westporter and illustrator Tracy Sugarman chronicles the sacrifices, tragedies, and triumphs of the 1964 Freedom Summer. As an illustrator and journalist, Sugarman covered the nearly one thousand student volunteers who traveled to the Mississippi Delta to assist black citizens to register to vote. Blending oral history with memoir and image, the reader is drawn into the lives of Sugarman's subjects, showing the passion and naiveté of the volunteers, the bravery of the civil rights leaders, and the candid, sometimes troubling reactions of the black and white Delta residents.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
