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Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice, Raymond Arsenault

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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. 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
  • In Birmingham and Montgomery, mobs of white supremacists swarmed the bus stations and battered the riders with fists and clubs while local police refused to intervene. The mayhem in Montgomery was captured by news photographers, shocking the nation, and sparking a crisis in the Kennedy administration, which after some hesitation and much public outcry, came to the aid of the Freedom Riders. Arsenault brings the key actors in this historical drama vividly to life, with colorful portraits of the Kennedys, Jim Farmer, John Lewis, Diane Nash, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Their courage, their fears, and the agonizing choices made by all these individuals run through the story like an electric current. The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months, some four hundred and fifty Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage in the years to come for the 1963 Birmingham demonstrations, Freedom Summer and the Selma-to-Montgomery March. With characters and plot lines rivaling those of the most imaginative fiction, this is a tale of heroic sacrifice and unexpected triumph
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
xii, 690 pages
Contents
  • You don't have to ride Jim Crow
  • Beside the weary road
  • Hallelujah! I'm a-travelin'
  • Alabama bound
  • Get on board, little children
  • If you miss me from the back of the bus
  • Freedom's coming and it won't be long
  • Make me a captive, Lord
  • Ain't gonna let no jail house turn me 'round
  • Woke up this morning with my mind on freedom
  • Oh, freedom
  • Epilogue : glory bound
  • Appendix : roster of freedom riders
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9780195327144
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Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice
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Freedom riders
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1961 and the struggle for racial justice
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Raymond Arsenault
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Language
eng
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
  • In Birmingham and Montgomery, mobs of white supremacists swarmed the bus stations and battered the riders with fists and clubs while local police refused to intervene. The mayhem in Montgomery was captured by news photographers, shocking the nation, and sparking a crisis in the Kennedy administration, which after some hesitation and much public outcry, came to the aid of the Freedom Riders. Arsenault brings the key actors in this historical drama vividly to life, with colorful portraits of the Kennedys, Jim Farmer, John Lewis, Diane Nash, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Their courage, their fears, and the agonizing choices made by all these individuals run through the story like an electric current. The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months, some four hundred and fifty Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage in the years to come for the 1963 Birmingham demonstrations, Freedom Summer and the Selma-to-Montgomery March. With characters and plot lines rivaling those of the most imaginative fiction, this is a tale of heroic sacrifice and unexpected triumph
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Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2006.
Biography type
contains biographical information
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Arsenault, Raymond
Dewey number
323/.0975/09046
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
E185.61
LC item number
.A69 2006
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Pivotal moments in American history
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Freedom Rides (1961)
  • African American civil rights workers
  • Civil rights workers
  • African Americans
  • Segregation in transportation
  • African Americans
  • Civil rights movements
  • Southern States
  • Freedom Rides, 1961
  • African American civil rights workers
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • Civil rights movements
  • Civil rights workers
  • Race relations
  • Segregation in transportation
  • Southern States
  • United States
  • Burgerrechten
  • Rassenverhoudingen
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • Verenigde Staten
  • Bürgerrechtsbewegung
  • Ethnische Beziehungen
  • USA
  • USA
  • USA
  • African American civil rights workers
  • Civil rights workers
  • African Americans
  • Segregation in transportation
  • African Americans
  • Civil rights movements
  • Southern States
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Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice, Raymond Arsenault
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-679) and index
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Contents
You don't have to ride Jim Crow -- Beside the weary road -- Hallelujah! I'm a-travelin' -- Alabama bound -- Get on board, little children -- If you miss me from the back of the bus -- Freedom's coming and it won't be long -- Make me a captive, Lord -- Ain't gonna let no jail house turn me 'round -- Woke up this morning with my mind on freedom -- Oh, freedom -- Epilogue : glory bound -- Appendix : roster of freedom riders
Control code
ocm60796141
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xii, 690 pages
Isbn
9780195327144
Lccn
2005018108
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o60796141
  • (OCoLC)60796141
Label
Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice, Raymond Arsenault
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-679) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
You don't have to ride Jim Crow -- Beside the weary road -- Hallelujah! I'm a-travelin' -- Alabama bound -- Get on board, little children -- If you miss me from the back of the bus -- Freedom's coming and it won't be long -- Make me a captive, Lord -- Ain't gonna let no jail house turn me 'round -- Woke up this morning with my mind on freedom -- Oh, freedom -- Epilogue : glory bound -- Appendix : roster of freedom riders
Control code
ocm60796141
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xii, 690 pages
Isbn
9780195327144
Lccn
2005018108
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o60796141
  • (OCoLC)60796141

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