Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides
Online ISBN:
9780813135137
Print ISBN:
9780813125114
Publisher:
University Press of Kentucky
Book
Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides
Published:
18 December 2008
Online ISBN:
9780813135137
Print ISBN:
9780813125114
Publisher:
University Press of Kentucky
Cite
Catsam, Derek Charles, Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides (Lexington, KY , 2008; online edn, Kentucky Scholarship Online, 14 Sept. 2011), https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813125114.001.0001, accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
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. This book 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.
Contents
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Front Matter
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Prologue: From Bigger Thomas to Henry Thomas
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Introduction: How the Freedom Rides Were Born (And What They Mean)
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1
“We Challenged Jim Crow”: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Emergence of Direct Action Civil Rights Protest in the 1940s
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2
Erasing the Badge of Inferiority: Segregated Interstate Transport on the Ground and in the Courts, 1941–1960
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3
“The Last Supper”: Preparing for the Freedom Rides
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4
“Hallelujah, I'm a Travelin’!”: Freedom Riding through the Old Dominion
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5
The Carolinas
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6
“Blazing Hell”: From Georgia into Alabama
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7
The Magic City: Showdown in Birmingham
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8
“I'm Riding the Front Seat to Montgomery This Time”: The Students Take Control
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9
“We've Come Too Far to Turn Back”: Montgomery
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10
Mississippi: “That Irreducible Citadel of Southernism”
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11
Jailed In: From Jackson City Jail to Parchman Farm
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12
Conclusion: Legacies of the Freedom Rides
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End Matter
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