The Children Bob Moses Led [Paperback]

Winner of the Hackney Literary Award and selected in 2002 by Time as one of the eleven best novels on the African American experience, The Children Bob Moses Led is a compelling, powerful chronicle of the events of Freedom Summer. The novel is narrated in alternating sections by Tom Morton, a white college student who joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for the summer, and Bob Moses, the charismatic leader of the Mississippi Summer Project. With clarity and honesty, Heaths novel recalls the bittersweet spirit of the 1960s and conveys the hopeful idealism of the young students as they begin to understand both the harsh reality faced by those they try to help and the enormity of the oppression they must overcome. 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. Publishers Weekly
Heath has created a novel that holds true to the actual heroic events of Freedom Summer. The Children Bob Moses Led is an illuminating account of a period from our history that is too little known and too little understood. Claybourne Carson, editor of the papers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and author of In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s.
The Children Bob Moses Led is an important and timely book, one that is being published at an extremely pivotal period in our national history. The reader will experience the raw courage, the personal discipline and there reliance on transcendent values, whether philosophical or religious, that were at the basis of this historic period of transformation in Mississippi. James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom
Bob Moses was the kind of leader we sadly miss today, one of quiet, yet enormous moral strength: a genuine inspiration to the sometimes confused idealism of the young volunteers in the midst of a violent and passionate struggle. PerlC'