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Freedom Rider Diary - Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison (Paperback)
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Freedom Rider Diary - Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison (Paperback)
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
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Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a
twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from
Massachusetts, spent the next forty days in Mississippi jail cells,
including the Maximum Security Unit at the infamous Parchman Prison
Farm. She chronicled the events and her experiences on hidden
scraps of paper which amazingly she was able to smuggle out. These
raw written scraps she fashioned into a manuscript, which has
waited, unread for more than fifty years. Freedom Rider Diary is
that account.Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode
interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961
to test the US Supreme Court rulings outlawing segregation in
interstate bus and terminal facilities. Brutality and arrests
inflicted on the Riders called national attention to the disregard
for federal law and the local violence used to enforce segregation.
Police arrested Riders for trespassing, unlawful assembly, and
violating state and local Jim Crow laws, along with other alleged
offenses, but they often allowed white mobs to attack the Riders
without arrest or intervention. This book offers a heretofore
unavailable detailed diary from a woman Freedom Rider along with an
introduction by historian Raymond Arsenault, author of the
definitive history of the Freedom Rides. In a personal essay
detailing her life before and after the Freedom Rides, Silver
explores what led her to join the movement and explains how,
galvanized by her actions and those of her compatriots in 1961, she
spent her life and career fighting for civil rights. Framing essays
and personal and historical photographs make the diary an ideal
book for the general public, scholars, and students of the movement
that changed America.
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