Friendship defies racism for two boys in this stirring story of the Freedom Summer that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Joe and John Henry are so excited they race each other there...only to discover that it takes more than a new law to change people\'s hearts..
Then a law is passed that forbids segregation and opens the town pool to everyone.
But there\'s one important way they\'re different: Joe is white and John Henry is black, and in the South in 1964, that means John Henry isn\'t allowed to do everything his best friend is.
They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love to swim.
Joe and John Henry are a lot alike.
He\'s not allowed.
He crawls like a catfish, blows bubbles like a swamp monster, but he doesn\'t swim in the town pool with me.
John Henry swims better than anyone I know.
Two boys--one black, one white--are best friends in the segregated 1960s South in this picture book about friends sticking together through thick and thin.
Full color.
Now in a 50th Anniversary Edition with a refreshed cover and a new Introduction.
Friendship defies racism for two boys in this stirring story of the Freedom Summer that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
