![]() ![]() ![]() No sooner said than done - the pool does indeed close before Glory's birthday party. Even Frankie is changing, but not in a very nice way. And then Frankie, Glory's other best friend, tells her the pool is going to be closing for repairs, even though there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it. First, big sister Jesslyn, her best friend, in more interested in a boy now than in doing things with Glory. But before the summer even gets going, things begin to change. It is also the summer when mostly white volunteers went to Mississippi to register black voters.įor Gloriana June Hemphill, or Glory, the summer of 1964 means a 12th birthday celebrated at her beloved Community Pool on July 4th. ![]() It was during the summer of 1964, called the Freedom Summer, that the Civil Rights Act was signed into law prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin. Set in a place called Hanging Moss, Mississippi, Glory Be is a work of historical fiction set in 1964, a volatile time and place at the height of the Civil Rights Movement and much of it is drawn from the author's own recollections and experiences. ![]() I read Glory Be last summer during a very hazy, hot, and humid stretch of weather we were having.* It was the perfect book for the season - it, too, is loaded with heat and humidity, but not all of it is weather related. ![]()
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