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Sandy Claws is a humorous animal parody of the Christmas stories,
featuring a red lobster, appropriately named "Sandy Claws." His
quirky animal friends share the entire Christmas experience,
culminating in the daring Christmas Eve flight to provide gifts for
those in need. The satirical spoof features the warmth of close
friends, danger, and subtle lifetime lessons. Originally a bedtime
story the author told to his small children some thirty-five years
ago, the narration is being released as a book for his
grandchildren's generation to enjoy.
In 1961, 16-year-old Brenda Travis was a youth leader of the NAACP
branch in her hometown of McComb, Mississippi. She joined in the
early stages of voter registration, and when the Freedom Rides and
direct action reached McComb, she and two SNCC workers sat-in at
the local bus station. That led to her first arrest and jailing,
which resulted in her being expelled and leading a protest walkout
from her high school. Thrown in jail for a second time, she was
eventually released on the condition that she leave the state. Her
poignant memoir describes what gave her the courage at such a young
age to fight segregation, how the movement unfolded in Mississippi,
and what happened after she was forced to leave her family,
friends, and fellow activists. One of the civil rights workers who
befriended her in McComb was the legendary activist Bob Moses, who
contributed the Foreword to her book. A white educator and Vietnam
war hero, J. Randall O’Brien, was deeply inspired by learning
about her courage, and he contributed the Afterword.
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