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| Title | : | Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (593 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199754314 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
Five Stars Ruben A. Raymundo Awesome service!!!. Freedom Riders William B. Jones "Freedom Riders" is a crucial telling of a portion of the American civil rights movement fifty years after its occurrence, by those who lived it, resisted it, reported it and learned from it. Presented on film as an American Experience production, and condensed here as a companion book by . Four hundred and thirty-six heroes Gregory Alan Wingo Being a good historian Dr. Arsenault has obeyed the 50-year rule of historical research but just barely with this abridged edition. Covering the civil rights event known as the Freedom Rides he provides us with both a powerful story and the factual detail to support it. It also has a compa
Petersburg. . Raymond Arsenault is John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida, St
It is a must-read for all students of America's freedom movement."--Lee E. He explains how young people, knowing the brutality and danger that others had faced, nevertheless came to replace them--in wave after wave--to ride dangerous roads, to face lawless lawmen, to withstand the fury of racist mobs, to endure the squalor and danger of Southern jails--even the dreaded Parchman Farm in Mississippi."--Roger Wilkins, Washington Post Book World"Compelling. Williams II, The Alabama Review"Drawing on personal papers, F.B.I. Moment by moment, he recreates the sense of crisis, and the terrifying threat of violence that haunted the first Freedom Riders, and their waves of successors, every mile of the way through the Deep South. Branscombe, Southern Historian"A meticulous, all-encompassing study of the 1961 Freedom Riders and their subsequent efforts. In his dramatic and exhaustive account of the Freedom Rid
In this new version of his encyclopedic Freedom Riders, Raymond Arsenault offers a significantly condensed and tautly written account. News photographers captured the violence in Montgomery, shocking the nation and sparking a crisis in the Kennedy administration. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement. Here are the key players--their fears and courage, their determination and second thoughts, and the agonizing choices they faced as they took on Jim Crow--and triumphed.Winner of the Owsley Prize Publication is timed to coincide with the airing of the American Experience miniseries documenting the Freedom Rides"Arsenault brings vividly to life
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