ARSENAULT, Raymond.
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
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First Edition Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice; Inscribed by Author Raymond Arsenault
First paperback edition of this definitive history of the 1961 Freedom Rides, in which hundreds of black and white activists risked their lives riding interstate buses into the segregated South to challenge Jim Crow. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "March 26, 2011. For Donna, with my best wishes, Peace and Freedom, Raymond Arsenault." In near fine condition.
Freedom Riders is Raymond Arsenault's acclaimed and comprehensive history of the 1961 Freedom Rides, the campaign in which more than four hundred civil rights activists rode interstate buses into the Deep South to test and enforce the Supreme Court rulings that had outlawed segregation in interstate travel. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and years of research, Arsenault recounts the beatings, the arrests, and the firebombing of a bus outside Anniston, Alabama, and shows how the riders' courage forced the Kennedy administration to act and galvanized the wider civil rights movement. Part of Oxford's Pivotal Moments in American History series, the book won wide praise and became the basis for the award-winning 2011 PBS American Experience documentary of the same name.
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
$225.00
In Stock