Freedom rider diary : smuggled notes from Parchman Prison

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

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 he...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silver, Carol Ruth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
Series:Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
Subjects:
Silver, Carol Ruth > Diaries.
Silver, Carol Ruth
1900-1999
Freedom Rides, 1961 > Diaries.
Women civil rights workers > United States > Diaries.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > Diaries.
African American civil rights workers > Southern States.
Civil rights workers > Southern States > Diaries.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
African American civil rights workers
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Race relations
Women civil rights workers
Southern States > Race relations.
Southern States
United States
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Diaries
History
Autobiographies.
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Table of 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.

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