We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi is a 1989 non-fiction book by Seth Cagin and Philip Dray.

[1] David W. Southern of Westminster College wrote that the book maintains historical accuracy while also going to "deftly recapture the climate of hatred, fear, ignorance, brutality, and poverty" seen in Mississippi Burning.

[4] The latter came from a former member of the Ku Klux Klan who perpetrated bombings, employees of the U.S. Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation, including agents, and other former law enforcement officials.

"[11] Pamela Karlan of the NAACP wrote that the authors demonstrate "the consequences of a federal government with only a limited jurisdiction over and commitment to protecting basic human freedom in the south.

[10] Anthony O. Edmonds of Ball State University wrote that the book is it is "exciting and inspiring" and "a fine work", citing that of the accounts of the crime it was the most "eloquently written", "accessible", and "exhaustively researched".