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Breach of Peace - Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders (Paperback)
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Breach of Peace - Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders (Paperback)
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Breach of Peace is a photo-history told in images old and new. The
book includes the mug shots of all 328 Freedom Riders arrested in
Jackson, Mississippi, along with contemporary portraits of 98
Riders, supplemented by interviews and brief bios. (The 2008
edition had 82 profiles.) In the spring and summer of 1961, several
hundred Americans blacks and whites, men and women—entered
Southern bus and train stations to challenge the segregated waiting
rooms, lunch counters, and bathrooms. The Supreme Court had ruled
that such segregation was illegal, and the Riders were trying to
make the federal government enforce that decision. Though there
were Freedom Rides across the South, Jackson soon became the
campaign's focus. The 328 Riders arrested there were quickly
convicted of breach of peace. The Riders then compounded their
protest by refusing bail. ""Jail, no bail!"" was their cry, and
they soon filled the city's jails. Mississippi responded by
transferring them to Parchman, the infamous Delta prison farm, for
the remainder of their time behind bars, usually about six weeks.
New to the expanded edition are five portraits made in the
maximum-security cells at Parchman during the fiftieth anniversary
events of 2011. The mug shots of each Rider, bearing name, birth
date, and other personal details, were duly filed away by agents of
the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, a state investigative
body dedicated to preserving white supremacy. By carefully
preserving the mug shots, the Commission inadvertently created a
testament to these heroes of the civil rights movement.
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