John Henry swims better than anyone I know.
He crawls like a catfish, blows bubbles like a swamp monster,
but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me.
He's not allowed.
Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting
marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love to
swim.
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.
Then a law is passed that forbids segregation and opens the town
pool to everyone. 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.
This stirring account of the "Freedom Summer" that followed the
passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 powerfully and poignantly
captures two boys' experience with racism and their friendship that
defies it.
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