Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice Arsenault RaymondPaperback
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice Arsenault RaymondPaperback They were black and white, young and old, men and women. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the…
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice Arsenault RaymondPaperback
They were black and white, young and old, men and women. 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 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.
They were jailed and beaten, their buses stoned and firebombed. 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. 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