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A powerful book, The Children Bob Moses Led proves wonderfully reminiscent of that long-gone time when it really seemed as if blacks and whites would walk hand-in-hand and change America. Bob Moses, one of the heroes of the civil rights movement, lead a drive in the summer of 1964 in rural Mississippi to register blacks to vote. He appears as a major character in William Heath's novel, the story of the Mississippi Summer Project and of the growing awareness of Tom Morton, a white college student who volunteers to go south to help register voters. The novel opens with Morton working as a counselor at a summer tennis camp, where he learns that his girlfriend is leaving him to join the Peace Corps. At the end of the summer, Morton decides not to go to graduate school, but to join the movement. At that point the novel switches points of view to Moses, who, working in Atlanta for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, understands he must go to Mississippi to lead the drive.
From Publishers Weekly
A violent, volatile period in American history-the fight for civil rights in Mississippi in the early 1960s-is brought to some life in this straightforward novel that weaves a wealth of facts with rather less rich fiction. Heath (The Walking Man) alternates first-person perspectives of his two main characters: Tom Morton, a naive white volunteer for the Mississippi Summer Project, organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, (SNCC) whose purpose is to help blacks register to vote; and the real-life Bob Moses, the seasoned black activist who holds SNCC together. For the most part, the plot describes or parallels actual events. Youthful activism begins to wane as the "Freedom Summer" progresses and the students learn that bullying sheriffs and gun-toting bigots are not the only obstacles to change in the American South. Facing more difficult challenges of institutionalized racism and power struggles within their own movement, the volunteers begin to question their own motives, and their relationships grow increasingly intense as personal agendas become furiously entangled with political ones. Tom's honest, often wry perspective reveals his fears and his determination, and his romantic involvement with one of his students-a black teenaged girl-raises ethical questions that continue to resonate. More problematic is Moses' first-person voice, which offers little of his inner world. The result is that his portions of the narrative often take on a textbook quality. But the large cast of characters gives voice to the complexity of the era's issues, and Heath's clear chronicle of this poignant moment in our nation's recent past is often compelling.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A powerful book, The Children Bob Moses Led proves wonderfully reminiscent of that long-gone time when it really seemed as if blacks and whites would walk hand-in-hand and change America. Bob Moses, one of the heroes of the civil rights movement, lead a drive in the summer of 1964 in rural Mississippi to register blacks to vote. He appears as a major character in William Heath's novel, the story of the Mississippi Summer Project and of the growing awareness of Tom Morton, a white college student who volunteers to go south to help register voters. The novel opens with Morton working as a counselor at a summer tennis camp, where he learns that his girlfriend is leaving him to join the Peace Corps. At the end of the summer, Morton decides not to go to graduate school, but to join the movement. At that point the novel switches points of view to Moses, who, working in Atlanta for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, understands he must go to Mississippi to lead the drive.
From Publishers Weekly
A violent, volatile period in American history-the fight for civil rights in Mississippi in the early 1960s-is brought to some life in this straightforward novel that weaves a wealth of facts with rather less rich fiction. Heath (The Walking Man) alternates first-person perspectives of his two main characters: Tom Morton, a naive white volunteer for the Mississippi Summer Project, organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, (SNCC) whose purpose is to help blacks register to vote; and the real-life Bob Moses, the seasoned black activist who holds SNCC together. For the most part, the plot describes or parallels actual events. Youthful activism begins to wane as the "Freedom Summer" progresses and the students learn that bullying sheriffs and gun-toting bigots are not the only obstacles to change in the American South. Facing more difficult challenges of institutionalized racism and power struggles within their own movement, the volunteers begin to question their own motives, and their relationships grow increasingly intense as personal agendas become furiously entangled with political ones. Tom's honest, often wry perspective reveals his fears and his determination, and his romantic involvement with one of his students-a black teenaged girl-raises ethical questions that continue to resonate. More problematic is Moses' first-person voice, which offers little of his inner world. The result is that his portions of the narrative often take on a textbook quality. But the large cast of characters gives voice to the complexity of the era's issues, and Heath's clear chronicle of this poignant moment in our nation's recent past is often compelling.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I am Bob Moses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bob Moses, Freedom School, Amite County, Freedom House, Democratic Party, Herbert Lee, Atlantic City, New York, Pike County, Summer Project, Fannie Lou Hamer, Tom Morton, Aaron Henry, John Doar,
I am Bob Moses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bob Moses, Freedom School, Amite County, Freedom House, Democratic Party, Herbert Lee, Atlantic City, New York, Pike County, Summer Project, Fannie Lou Hamer, Tom Morton, Aaron Henry, John Doar,