02976nam 2200601 450 991082056970332120200520144314.01-62103-979-X1-61703-887-3(CKB)2670000000502998(EBL)1181928(MiAaPQ)EBC1181928(OCoLC)861966518(MdBmJHUP)muse28605(Au-PeEL)EBL1181928(CaPaEBR)ebr10834986(CaONFJC)MIL571979(EXLCZ)99267000000050299820140213h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierFreedom rider diary smuggled notes from Parchman Prison /Carol Ruth SilverJackson, Mississippi :University Press of Mississippi,2014.©20141 online resource (225 p.)Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography"Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography."1-306-40728-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. 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 inteWillie Morris Books in Memoir and BiographyFreedom Rides, 1961DiariesWomen civil rights workersUnited StatesDiariesAfrican AmericansCivil rightsSouthern StatesDiariesAfrican American civil rights workersSouthern StatesSouthern StatesRace relationsFreedom Rides, 1961Women civil rights workersAfrican AmericansCivil rightsAfrican American civil rights workers323.1196/0730750904Silver Carol Ruth1595690MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820569703321Freedom rider diary3916737UNINA