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

Name: Freedom's Main Line The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides
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ISBN: 9780813133775

ISBN-10: 0813133777

ISBN-13: 9780813133775

Edition: 2011

Authors: Derek Charles Catsam

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Black Americans in the Jim Crow South could not escape the grim reality of racial segregation, whether enforced by law or by custom. In Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, author Derek Charles Catsam shows that courtrooms, classrooms, and cemeteries were not the only front lines in African Americans' prolonged struggle for basic civil rights. Buses, trains, and other modes of public transportation provided the perfect means for civil rights activists to protest the second-class citizenship of African Americans, bringing the reality of the violence of segregation into the consciousness of America and the world. In 1947, nearly a decade before the Supreme…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 5/24/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 436
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English