Freedom's Main Line

The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides

Derek Charles Catsam (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

436 Seiten

2009
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-2511-4 (ISBN)

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In 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and other civil rights groups began organizing the Freedom Rides. The Freedom Riders were volunteers of different backgrounds who travelled on buses throughout the American South to help enforce the Supreme Court ruling that had declared racial segregation on public transportation illegal. In Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, Derek Catsam shows how the Freedom Rides were crucial in raising awareness among decision makers and in bringing the realities of racial segregation into American homes through national media coverage.

Derek Charles Catsam is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.1.2009
Reihe/Serie	Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Verlagsort	Lexington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8131-2511-1 / 0813125111
ISBN-13	978-0-8131-2511-4 / 9780813125114
Zustand	Neuware