I had never heard about the Freedom Riders. Is it that the white ma The black man slaved in your fields And if he breaks any of these rules Your hate for him will cause you to beat and kill him. You taught the black man to love your white God, to worship and to pray to him, but then he was not allowed to step foot in your churches. The black woman raised your children, even held them on her lap, but once that child was grown, he would not allow her to even sit next to him on a bus. The black man slaved in your fields to put food on your table, but he was not allowed in your restaurants. Storytelling that will stand alongside the finest works on the history of civil rights. Freedom Riders is a stunning achievement, a masterpiece of But indelible images of their courage, broadcast to the world by a newly awakened press, galvanized the movement for racial justice across the nation. The Riders were widely criticized as reckless provocateurs, or outside agitators. Along the way, he offers vivid portraits of dynamic figures such as James Farmer, Diane Nash, John Lewis, and Fred Shuttlesworth, recapturing the drama of an improbable, almost unbelievable saga of heroic sacrifice and unexpected triumph. His tightly braided narrative reaches from the White House-where the Kennedys were just awakening to the moral power of the civil rights struggle-to the cells of Mississippi's infamous Parchman Prison, where Riders tormented their jailers with Recreates these moments with heart-stopping immediacy. When Martin Luther King met the Riders in Montgomery, a raging mob besieged them in a church. In Alabama, police stood idly by as racist thugs battered them. They were jailed and beaten, their buses stoned and firebombed. The Freedom Riders were greeted with hostility, fear, and violence. In these pages, acclaimed historian Raymond Arsenault provides a gripping account of six pivotal months that jolted the consciousness of America. Movement, yet a full-length history has never been written until now. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport.
In these pages, accl They were black and white, young and old, men and women. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights movement, yet a full-length history has never been written until now. They were black and white, young and old, men and women.
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