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Freedom Riders - 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Paperback)
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Freedom Riders - 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Paperback)
Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
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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. The
Freedom Riders were greeted with hostility, fear, and violence.
They were jailed and beaten, their buses stoned and firebombed. In
Alabama, police stood idly by as racist thugs battered them. When
Martin Luther King met the Riders in Montgomery, a raging mob
besieged them in a church. Arsenault recreates these moments with
heart-stopping immediacy. His tightly braided narrative reaches
from the White House-where the Kennedys were just awakening to the
moral power of the civil rights struggle-to the cells of
Mississippi's infamous Parchman Prison, where Riders tormented
their jailers with rousing freedom anthems. Along the way, he
offers vivid portraits of dynamic figures such as James Farmer,
Diane Nash, John Lewis, and Fred Shuttlesworth, recapturing the
drama of an improbable, almost unbelievable saga of heroic
sacrifice and unexpected triumph. The Riders were widely criticized
as reckless provocateurs, or "outside agitators." But indelible
images of their courage, broadcast to the world by a newly awakened
press, galvanized the movement for racial justice across the
nation. Freedom Riders is a stunning achievement, a masterpiece of
storytelling that will stand alongside the finest works on the
history of civil rights.
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