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| Full Title | Freedom Riders 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice |
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| Author(s) | Raymond Arsenault |
| Edition | |
| ISBN | 9780199792962, 9780199754311, 9780199792429, 9780195327144 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | PDF and EPUB |
The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. 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. In this new version of his encyclopedic Freedom Riders, Raymond Arsenault offers a significantly condensed and tautly written account. With characters and plot lines rivaling those of the most imaginative fiction, this is a tale of heroic sacrifice and unexpected triumph. Arsenault recounts how a group of volunteers–blacks and whites–came together to travel from Washington DC through the Deep South, defying Jim Crow laws in buses and terminals and putting their lives on the line for racial justice. News photographers captured the violence in Montgomery, shocking the nation and sparking a crisis in the Kennedy administration. 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 a defining moment in modern American history.”–Eric Foner, The New York Times Book Review“Authoritative, compelling history.”–William Grimes, The New York Times“For those interested in understanding 20th-century America, this is an essential book.”–Roger Wilkins, Washington Post Book World“Arsenault’s record of strategy sessions, church vigils, bloody assaults, mass arrests, political maneuverings and personal anguish captures the mood and the turmoil, the excitement and the confusion of the movement and the time.”–Michael Kenney, The Boston Globe
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| Full Title | Freedom Riders 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice |
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| Author(s) | Raymond Arsenault |
| Edition | |
| ISBN | 9780199755813, 9780195136746, 9780195327144, 9780198031284 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | PDF and EPUB |
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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