It was the Freedom Summer of 1964. Civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were driving through rural Mississippi. When a police cruiser flashed its lights behind them, they hesitated. Were these law-abiding officers or members of the Ku Klux Klan? Should they pull over or try to outrun their pursuers? The last day in the lives of these courageous young men is relived in this gripping story.
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"The authors use the 1964 murder of three civil-rights activists in Mississippi as a touchstone for the entrenched inequities in the South that led to the civil-rights movement. The dramatic focal point of the book is a decision: three young men, all activists for the Mississippi Freedom Project, two white and one African American, are driving on a rural road. A cop car flashes its lights behind them, ordering them to pull over. In the context of the era, when a traffic stop could mean a beating or murder, the decision to pull over was a grave one. In this short, gripping book, the authors juxtapose chapters that are fictional, centering on this tense decision, with chapters that explain the background of the segregated South and the civil-rights movement. The photo-realist style of the full-color illustrations ratchets up the tension. Complementary to other young-adult synopses of the civil-rights struggle, such as Ellen Levine's Freedom's Children (1993)."
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Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon have written and published more than twenty-three books. In addition to their award winning creative chapter book series entitled Blast To The Past, they have also written junior movie tie-in novels for summer blockbuster films including Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Stacia lives in Irvine, California with her three children. Rhody lives in Tucson with her three kids.
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