Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice

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Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice

Title remainder

1961 and the struggle for racial justice

Statement of responsibility

Raymond Arsenault

Creator

• trueArsenault, Raymond

Subject

• trueAfrican Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
• trueAfrican Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
• trueCivil Rights Movement
• trueCivil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
• trueCivil rights workers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• trueSegregation in transportation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
• trueSouthern States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• trueUnited States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• trueAfrican American civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights movement, yet a full-length history has never been written until now. In these pages, acclaimed historian Raymond Arsenault provides a gripping account of six pivotal months that jolted the consciousness of America. Here is the definitive account of a dramatic and indeed pivotal moment in American history, a critical episode that transformed the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. Raymond Arsenault offers a meticulously researched and grippingly written account of the Freedom Rides, one of the most compelling chapters in the history of civil rights. Arsenault recounts how in 1961, emboldened by federal rulings that declared segregated transit unconstitutional, a group of volunteers--blacks and whites--traveled together from Washington DC through the Deep South, defying Jim Crow laws in buses and terminals, putting their bodies and their lives on the line for racial justice. The book paints a harrowing account of the outpouring of hatred and violence that greeted the Freedom Riders in Alabama and Mississippi. One bus was disabled by Ku Klux Klansmen, then firebombed

Member of

• Pivotal moments in American history

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Pivotal moments in American history