Freedom's Main Line - The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides

Informationen zum Autor Derek Charles Catsam is associate professor of history at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. His previous publications include numerous reviews and articles. He lives in Odessa, TX. Klappentext In 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and other civil rights groups began organizing the Freedom Rides. The Freedom Riders were volunteers of different backgrounds who travelled on buses throughout the American South to help enforce the Supreme Court ruling that had declared racial segregation on public transportation illegal. In Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, Derek Catsam shows how the Freedom Rides were crucial in raising awareness among decision makers and in bringing the realities of racial segregation into American homes through national media coverage.

Product details

• Authors: Derek Charles Catsam
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.05.2010
• EAN: 9780813133775
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-3377-5
• Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education