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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Silver, Carol Ruth.     Subjects     Silver, Carol Ruth -- Diaries.     Freedom Rides, 1961 -- Diaries.     Women civil rights workers -- United States -- Diaries.     Blacks -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- Diaries.     Civil rights workers, Black -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.     Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Diaries.     Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Southern States -- Race relations.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Silver, Carol Ruth.       by title:      Freedom rider diary ...       by call number:      323.1196073 S587f     Search the Web     Silver, Carol Ruth.     Silver, Carol Ruth -- Diaries.     Freedom Rides, 1961 -- Diaries.     Women civil rights workers -- United States -- Diaries.     Blacks -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- Diaries.     Civil rights workers, Black -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.     Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Diaries.     Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Southern States -- Race relations.       MARC Display

Freedom rider diary : smuggled notes from Parchman Prison / Carol Ruth Silver. by Silver, Carol Ruth. University Press of Mississippi, [2014] Call #: 323.1196073 S587f Subjects Silver, Carol Ruth -- Diaries.   Freedom Rides, 1961 -- Diaries.   Women civil rights workers -- United States -- Diaries.   Blacks -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- Diaries.   Civil rights workers, Black -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.   Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Diaries.   Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Southern States -- Race relations. ISBN:  9781617038877 (hc.) Description:  xviii, 188 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes:  "Willie Morris books in memoir and biography." Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  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. Summary:  "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 Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 to test the US Supreme Court rulings outlawing segregation in interstate bus and terminal facilities. Brutality and arrests inflicted on the Riders called national attention to the disregard for federal law and the local violence used to enforce segregation. Police arrested Riders for trespassing, unlawful assembly, and violating state and local Jim Crow laws, along with other alleged offenses, but they often allowed white mobs to attack the Riders without arrest or intervention. A detailed diary from a woman Freedom Rider along with an introduction by historian Raymond Arsenault, author of the definitive history of the Freedom Rides. In a personal essay detailing her life before and after the Freedom Rides, Silver explores what led her to join the movement and explains how, galvanized by her actions and those of her compatriots in 1961, she spent her life and career fighting for civil rights"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 323.1196073 S587f Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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