The Freedom Rides and Alabama: A Guide to Key Events and Places, Context, and Impact - Couverture souple

Matteson, Noelle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1603061061 ISBN 13 : 9781603061063

Editeur : NewSouth Books, 2011

Synopsis

This concise guidebook gives a brief overview of the 1961 Freedom Rides, a crucial moment in American history in which an interracial group traveled across the South to protest segregated transportation. The Freedom Rides and Alabama focuses on the Freedom Riders' experiences in Alabama, from the firebombing of their bus in Anniston to surviving beatings in Birmingham. A large portion of this book describes the riders' arrival in Montgomery, including the violent white mob that greeted them and the ensuing mass meeting at First Baptist Church, where leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Fred Shuttlesworth spoke. This volume puts the Freedom Rides in historical context and is published in conjunction with the Alabama Historical Commission to celebrate the opening of a Montgomery museum at the site of the Greyhound station where the Freedom Riders arrived on their journey south, dedicated to the history of the Freedom Rides on the occasion of their fiftieth anniversary.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

NOELLE MATTESON is a graduate of Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. She became interested in Southern culture after volunteering in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

Arlam Carr Jr. was the named plaintiff in the 1964 lawsuit that desegregated the public schools in Montgomery, Alabama, and became one of the first black graduates of Sidney Lanier High School. He attended the University of Texas at El Paso and has worked in television news production for going on four decades.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: NewSouth Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1603061061
• ISBN 13: 9781603061063
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible