Freedom riders: 1961 and the struggle for racial justice

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...

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Main Author: Arsenault, Raymond 1948- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford University Press 2006
In:Year: 2006
Reviews:RIDING INTO HISTORY (2007) (Maxwell, William W.)
Series/Journal:Pivotal moments in American history
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Civil rights movement / Racial segregation / Geschichte 1961
Further subjects:B Civil rights movements (Southern States) History 20th century
B African American civil rights workers History 20th century
B African Americans Segregation (Southern States) History 20th century
B Civil rights workers (United States) History 20th century
B Segregation in transportation (Southern States) History 20th century
B African American civil rights workers History 20th century
B Segregation in transportation Southern States History 20th century
B Southern States Race relations History 20th century
B Civil rights workers United States History 20th century
B African Americans Segregation Southern States History 20th century
B Civil rights movements Southern States History 20th century
B African Americans Civil rights Southern States History 20th century
B Southern States Race relations History 20th century
B African Americans Civil rights (Southern States) History 20th century
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Summary: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. Here is the definitive account of a dramatic and indeed pivotal moment in American history, a critical episode that transformed the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. Raymond Arsenault offers a meticulously researched and grippingly written account of the Freedom Rides, one of the most compelling chapters in the history of civil rights. Arsenault recounts how in 1961, emboldened by federal rulings that declared segregated transit unconstitutional, a group of volunteers--blacks and whites--traveled together from Washington DC through the Deep South, defying Jim Crow laws in buses and terminals, putting their bodies and their lives on the line for racial justice. The book paints a harrowing account of the outpouring of hatred and violence that greeted the Freedom Riders in Alabama and Mississippi. One bus was disabled by Ku Klux Klansmen, then firebombed
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [653]-679) and index
ISBN:0195136748