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Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781429410403
ISBN: 142941040X
ISBN: 9780195136746
ISBN: 0195136748
ISBN: 0198031289
ISBN: 9780198031284
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 690 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-679) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Awards Note:	Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2006.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.