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Freedom's Main Line
Derek Catsam
其他書名
The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides
出版
University Press of Kentucky.
ISBN
0813135133
9780813135137
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=axpDswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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 nationa.