Ebook: Freedom riders: 1961 and the struggle for racial justice
Author: Arsenault Raymond
- Tags: African American civil rights workers--History--20th century, African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century, African Americans--Segregation--Southern States--History--20th century, borgerlige rettigheder, borgerretsforkæmpere, Civil rights workers--United States--History--20th century, historie, raceadskillelse, racisme, Segregation in transportation--Southern States--History--20th century, sorte, Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century, Race relations, Segreg
- Series: Pivotal moments in American history
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: New York;Oxford;Southern States;Sydstaterne;USA;United States
- Edition: Abridged ed
- Language: English
- epub
Recounts how a group of volunteers - blacks and whites - came together to travel from Washington DC through the Deep South, defying Jim Crow laws in buses and terminals and putting their lives on the line for racial justice. News photographers captured the violence in Montgomery, shocking the nation and sparking a crisis in the Kennedy administration. Here are the key players - their fears and courage, their determination and second thoughts, and the agonizing choices they faced as they took on Jim Crow - and triumphed
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