Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice

Summary: "Arsenault recreates these moments with heart-stopping immediacy. His tightly braided narrative reaches from the White House - where, as he shows, the Freedom Rider crisis helped awaken the cautious Kennedy brothers to the moral power of the civil rights struggle - to the cells of Mississippi's infamous Parchman Prison, where dozens of Riders tormented their jailers nightly with rousing choruses of freedom anthems. He offers vivid portraits of dynamic figures such as James Farmer, Diane Nash, John Lewis, and Fred Shuttlesworth."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 0195136748 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: xii, 690 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.