LEADER 02961nam 2200601 450 001 9910463748703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-62103-979-X 010 $a1-61703-887-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000502998 035 $a(EBL)1181928 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1181928 035 $a(OCoLC)861966518 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28605 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1181928 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10834986 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL571979 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000502998 100 $a20140213h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFreedom rider diary $esmuggled notes from Parchman Prison /$fCarol Ruth Silver 210 1$aJackson, Mississippi :$cUniversity Press of Mississippi,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 1 $aWillie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography 300 $a"Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography." 311 $a1-306-40728-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aRaymond 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. 330 $a Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next forty days in Mississippi jail cells, including the Maximum Security Unit at the infamous Parchman Prison Farm. She chronicled the events and her experiences on hidden scraps of paper which amazingly she was able to smuggle out. These raw written scraps she fashioned into a manuscript, which has waited, unread for more than fifty years. Freedom Rider Diary is that account. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode inte 410 0$aWillie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography 606 $aFreedom Rides, 1961$vDiaries 606 $aWomen civil rights workers$zUnited States$vDiaries 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$zSouthern States$vDiaries 606 $aAfrican American civil rights workers$zSouthern States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFreedom Rides, 1961 615 0$aWomen civil rights workers 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights 615 0$aAfrican American civil rights workers 676 $a323.1196/0730750904 700 $aSilver$b Carol Ruth$0872467 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463748703321 996 $aFreedom rider diary$91947751 997 $aUNINA