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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463748703321

Autore

Silver Carol Ruth

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, Mississippi : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-62103-979-X

1-61703-887-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Disciplina

323.1196/0730750904

Soggetti

Freedom Rides, 1961

Women civil rights workers - United States

African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States

African American civil rights workers - Southern States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Rider Diary is that account. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode inte