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

Buy online from an indie bookstore
Find an indie bookstore near you

Link to this Book

AskIndies about this Book on Twitter


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.
Indie Bookstore Finder

Indie Bestsellers

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford
Random House
Miles from Nowhere
Nami Mun
Riverhead
American Buffalo
Steven Rinella
Spiegel & Grau
The Piano Teacher
Janice Y. K. Lee
Viking

See the Rest