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

• Autore: Silver Carol Ruth
• Pubblicazione: Jackson, Mississippi : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.1196/0730750904
• Soggetto topico: Freedom Rides, 1961; Women civil rights workers - United States; African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States; African American civil rights workers - Southern States
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Race relations
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Freedom rider diary
• ISBN: 1-62103-979-X; 1-61703-887-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787625803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography