|
Also Recommended
|
|
|
Algerians, State Terror, and Memory
Jim House, Neil MacMaster
£32.00
|
|
|
|
|
Freedom Riders Abridged
1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Second Edition
Raymond Arsenault
352 pages
|
15 black and white halftones, 3 line drawings
|
235x156mm
978-0-19-975431-1
|
Paperback
|
31 March 2011
|
|
|
|
|
- This book is an entirely shortened edition of the original work (this edition cuts some of the less prominent rides, as well as the appendix matter)
- Book will be the tie-in edition to the American Experience film (airing on PBS in May 2011), a film that is based on the original edition
The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement. In this new version of his encyclopedic Freedom Riders, Raymond Arsenault offers a significantly condensed and tautly written account. With characters and plot lines rivaling those of the most imaginative fiction, this is a tale of heroic sacrifice and unexpected triumph. Arsenault recounts how
a group of volunteers—blacks and whites—came together to travel from Washington DC through the Deep South, defying Jim Crow laws in buses and terminals and putting their lives on the line for racial justice. News photographers captured the violence in Montgomery, shocking the nation and sparking a crisis in the Kennedy administration. Here are the key players—their fears and courage, their determination and second thoughts, and the agonizing choices they faced as they took on Jim Crow—and triumphed.
Winner of the Owsley Prize
Publication is timed to coincide with the airing of the American Experience miniseries documenting the Freedom Rides
"Arsenault brings vividly to life a defining moment in modern American
history."
—Eric Foner, The New York Times Book Review
"Authoritative, compelling history."
—William Grimes, The New York Times
"For those interested in understanding 20th-century America, this is an essential book."
—Roger Wilkins, Washington Post Book World
"Arsenault's record of strategy sessions, church vigils, bloody assaults, mass arrests, political maneuverings and personal anguish captures the mood and the turmoil, the excitement and the confusion of the movement and the time."
—Michael Kenney, The Boston GlobeReadership: Anyone interested in American and African American history, those
interested in Civil Rights, viewers of the PBS film airing in May 2011.
|
|
|
Raymond Arsenault, John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Raymond Arsenault is John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.
|
|
|
List of Maps
Editors' Note
Preface
1 You Don't Have To Ride Jim Crow
2 Beside the Weary Road
3 Hallelujah! I'm A-Travelin'
4 Alabama Bound
5 Get on Board, Little Children
6 If You Miss Me From the Back of the Bus
7 Freedom's Coming and It Won't Be Long
8 Make Me a Captive, Lord
9 Ain't Gonna Let No Jail House Turn Me 'Round
10 Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom
11 Oh, Freedom
Epilogue: Glory Bound
Appendix: Roster of Freedom Riders
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
|
|
|
|
The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
|
|
