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Author:
Charles Person, Richard Rooker
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Date:
April 27, 2021
A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers.
What The Reviewers Say
Person’s searing, revelatory, and often-inspiring memoir provides a clear, vivid, and eloquent account of the first segment of the pivotal 1961 Freedom Rides, as experienced by its youngest participant and one of its few remaining survivors. It instructively captures the Riders’ travails to the point where the battered first group found themselves unable to push on and were forced to fly to New Orleans and cede the struggle to reinforcements from Nashville.
... striking.
A stirring memoir that offers a view of the legacy of the 1961 Freedom Rides on both micro and macro scales.
