In a final flurry of phone calls, Byron White and Governor Ross Barnett put the finishing touches on a military operation “worthy of a NATO war game,” as one historian later put it. Unfortunately, the close collaboration also produced a ...
"Uses primary sources to tell the story of the Freedom Riders during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement"--
Offers the true account of two young men who took the risk to venture into the segregated South at the peak of the Civil Rights era to take part as Freedom Riders and fight for equality for all--making their mark and doing their part to ...
Randall and Randall, “Freedom Riders' Diary,” 14–20; Brown and Randall, The Freedom Riders, 6–9; Gordon Negen, “I Went on a Freedom Ride,” Reformed Journal (July–Aug. 1961): 4–6. St. Petersburg Times, June 16, 17 (Diamond and Smith ...
With characters and plot lines rivaling those of the most imaginative fiction, this is a tale of heroic sacrifice and unexpected triumph.
How did two youths-one raised in an all-black community in the deep South, the other brought up with only whites in the Midwest-become partners for freedom during the civil rights...
This is the first book in the popular Jan Calvin Mystery series.
For decades leading up to the civil rights movement, African Americans faced segregation, danger, and humiliation while using public transportation and facilities.
The book paints a harrowing picture of the outpouring of hatred and violence that greeted the Freedom Riders in Alabama and Mississippi.
For decades leading up to the civil rights movement, African Americans faced segregation, danger, and humiliation while using public transportation and facilities.