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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
March 17, 2007
Raymond Arsenault professor, southern history, USF

Raymond Arsenault brings a defining moment in modern American history to life, drawing on personal papers, FBI files, and interviews with more than 200 participants in the rides. Arsenault's Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice rescues the men and women who, at great personal risk, rode public buses into the South in order to challenge segregation in interstate travel from historical obscurity.

This lecture is copresented with the Georgia Center for the Book.

Culture & Identity | History
1960s | Activism | civil rights movement | Freedom Riders | Human Rights | Segregation | Military & Warfare | Race
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Binding: Paperback, 704 pages
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