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Author Silver, Carol Ruth.

Title Freedom rider diary : smuggled notes from Parchman Prison / Carol Ruth Silver.

Publication Info. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]

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 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B SILVER    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note "Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Raymond Arsenault -- New York -- Traveling south -- The crime -- Justice -- Hinds County Jail -- The boys go to Parchman -- Maximum security unit -- Parchman continued -- Out! -- And off -- And back -- Events -- "Comes now the defendant ..." -- Afterword / Cherie A. Gaines -- Claude Albert Liggins, freedom rider -- Autobiographical notes / Carol Ruth Silver -- Chapter notes -- Suggested additional readings and documentary films.
Summary 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.--From publisher description.
Subject Silver, Carol Ruth -- Diaries.
Mississippi State Penitentiary.
Silver, Carol Ruth. (OCoLC)fst01929080
Mississippi State Penitentiary. (OCoLC)fst00522430
Freedom Rides (1961) (OCoLC)fst01743519
Freedom Rides, 1961 -- Diaries.
Women civil rights workers -- United States -- Diaries.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- Diaries.
African American civil rights workers -- Southern States.
Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Diaries.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Southern States -- Race relations.
African American civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00799093
African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
Civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00862721
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Women civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst01177410
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Diaries. (OCoLC)fst01423794
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Silver, Carol Ruth. Freedom rider diary. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 9781617038884 (DLC) 2013043446
ISBN 9781617038877 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
1617038873 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
9781496813145 (paperback)
1496813146 (paperback)
9781617038884 (ebook)
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