By Carol Ruth Silver,Raymond Arsenault,Cherie A. Gaines,Claude A Liggins

ISBN-10: 1496813146

ISBN-13: 9781496813145

ISBN-10: 1617038873

ISBN-13: 9781617038877

Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old contemporary collage graduate initially from Massachusetts, spent the subsequent 40 days in Mississippi prison cells, together with the utmost defense Unit on the notorious Parchman felony Farm. She chronicled the occasions and her stories on hidden scraps of paper which amazingly she was once in a position to smuggle out. those uncooked written scraps she formed right into a manuscript, which has waited, unread for greater than fifty years. Freedom Rider Diary is that account.

Freedom Riders have been civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern usa in 1961 to check the U.S. very best courtroom rulings outlawing segregation in interstate bus and terminal amenities. Brutality and arrests inflicted at the Riders known as nationwide cognizance to the overlook for federal legislation and the neighborhood violence used to implement segregation. Police arrested Riders for trespassing, illegal meeting, and violating country and native Jim Crow legislation, in addition to different alleged offenses, yet they typically allowed white mobs to assault the Riders with no arrest or intervention.

Though a couple of books recount the liberty Rides as a part of the bigger civil rights tale, this booklet deals a heretofore unavailable unique diary from a girl Freedom Rider besides an advent by way of historian Raymond Arsenault, writer of the definitive heritage of the liberty Rides. In a private essay detailing her lifestyles earlier than and after the liberty Rides, Silver explores what led her to hitch the circulate and explains how, galvanized through her activities and people of her compatriots in 1961, she spent her existence and profession struggling with for civil rights. Framing essays and private and old photos make the diary a terrific booklet for most people, students, and scholars of the flow that modified America.

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