Freedom Riders
1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By Raymond Arsenault
(Oxford University Press, Hardcover, 9780195136746, 690pp.)
Publication Date: January 2006
Categories: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor, Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights, United States - 20th Century/60s
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Description
The author offers a meticulously researched account of the Freedom Rides, one of the most compelling chapters in the history of civil rights. The book paints a harrowing picture of the outpouring of hatred and violence that greeted the Freedom Riders in Alabama and Mississippi.











