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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silver, Carol Ruth.

Series:

Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom Rides, 1961--Diaries.

Freedom Rides, 1961.

Women civil rights workers--United States--Diaries.

Women civil rights workers.

African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--Diaries.

African Americans.

African American civil rights workers--Southern States.

African American civil rights workers.

Silver, Carol Ruth--Diaries.

Silver, Carol Ruth.

Southern States--Race relations.

Southern States.

Mississippi State Penitentiary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

Summary:

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 her experiences on hidden scraps of paper which amazingly she was able to smuggle out. These raw written scraps she fashioned into a manuscript, which has waited, unread for more than fifty years. Freedom Rider Diary is that account. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode inte

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.

Notes:

"Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62103-979-X

1-61703-887-3

OCLC:

861966518