Freedom Rider Diary : Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison /

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Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next forty days in Mississippi jail cells, including the Maximum Security Unit at the infamous Parchman Prison Farm. She chronicled the events and he...

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Autor principal: Silver, Carol Ruth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Silver, Carol Ruth.
Silver, Carol Ruth > Diaries.
Women civil rights workers.
Race relations.
Civil rights workers.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American civil rights workers.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme > États-Unis (Sud) > Journaux intimes.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs americains > États-Unis (Sud)
Noirs americains > Droits > États-Unis (Sud) > Journaux intimes.
Defenseuses des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Journaux intimes.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Southern States > Diaries.
African American civil rights workers > Southern States.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > Diaries.
Women civil rights workers > United States > Diaries.
Freedom Rides, 1961 > Diaries.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
Southern States > Race relations.
Autobiographies.
History.
Diaries.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next forty days in Mississippi jail cells, including the Maximum Security Unit at the infamous Parchman Prison Farm. She chronicled the events and her experiences on hidden scraps of paper which amazingly she was able to smuggle out. These raw written scraps she fashioned into a manuscript, which has waited, unread for more than fifty years. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 to test the United States Supreme Court rulings outlawing segregation in interstate bus and terminal facilities. Brutality and arrests inflicted on the Riders called national attention to the disregard for federal law and the local violence used to enforce segregation in the southern United States. Police arrested Riders for trespassing, unlawful assembly, and violating state and local Jim Crow laws, along with other alleged offenses, but they often allowed white mobs to attack the Riders without arrest or intervention. Though a number of books recount the Freedom Rides as part of the larger civil rights story, this book offers a heretofore unavailable detailed diary. In a personal essay detailing her life before and after the Freedom Rides, Silver explores what led her to join the movement and explains how, galvanized by her actions and those of her compatriots in 1961, she spent her life and career fighting for civil rights.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9781621039792

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