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They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights movement, yet a full-length history has never been written until now. In these pages, acclaimed historian Raymond Arsenault provides a gripping account of six pivotal months that jolted the consciousness of America.
The Freedom Riders were greeted with hostility, fear, and violence. They were jailed and beaten, their buses stoned and firebombed. In Alabama, police stood idly by as racist thugs battered them. When Martin Luther King met the Riders in Montgomery, a raging mob besieged them in a church. Arsenault recreates these moments with heart-stopping immediacy. His tightly braided narrative reaches from the White House—where the Kennedys were just awakening to the moral power of the civil rights struggle—to the cells of Mississippi's infamous Parchman Prison, where Riders tormented their jailers with rousing freedom anthems. Along the way, he offers vivid portraits of dynamic figures such as James Farmer, Diane Nash, John Lewis, and Fred Shuttlesworth, recapturing the drama of an improbable, almost unbelievable saga of heroic sacrifice and unexpected triumph.
The Riders were widely criticized as reckless provocateurs, or "outside agitators." But indelible images of their courage, broadcast to the world by a newly awakened press, galvanized the movement for racial justice across the nation. Freedom Riders is a stunning achievement, a masterpiece of storytelling that will stand alongside the finest works on the history of civil rights.

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Roger Wilkins
… I entirely agree with a statement made by my former Justice Department colleague the late sociologist James Laue, and quoted by Arsenault: "The national mobilization of conscience which had begun in Montgomery and grown in 1960 reached full bloom with the Freedom Rides." To find out how that happened, one must read Arsenault's superb rendering of that great saga. For those interested in understanding 20th-century America, this is an essential book.
— The Washington Post
William Grimes
This is a story that only benefits from Mr. Arsenault's deliberately slowed-down narration. Moment by moment, he recreates the sense of crisis, and the terrifying threat of violence that haunted the first Freedom Riders, and their waves of successors, every mile of the way through the Deep South. He skillfully puts into order a bewildering series of events and leads the reader, painstakingly, through the political complexities of the time. Perhaps his greatest achievement is to show, through a wealth of detail, just how contested every inch of terrain was, and how uncertain the outcome, as the Freedom Riders pressed forward, hundreds of them filling Southern jails.
— The New York Times
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Arsenault (history, Univ. of South Florida; Jacksonville: The Consolidation Story, from Civil Rights to the Jaguars) deftly weaves an intricate narrative of the 1961 Freedom Rides, the civil rights effort by black and white volunteers to enforce the integration of interstate buses and travel facilities throughout the Deep South. Narrating the origins, the violent and turbulent rides themselves, the litigation, and the legacy, this work is similar, in its skillful crafting, to James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom on the Civil War. Arsenault recounts the dynamics of the civil rights organizations that eventually banded together to sustain the Freedom Rides, as well as the individual riders who suffered mob beatings and prison sentences. The interplay of the riders with municipal and state leaders, as well as with the Kennedys and the FBI at the federal level, is skillfully portrayed. The 500 pages are justified when one considers the near inexhaustible courage of the freedom riders and the significance of the national crisis they forced. For a more concise, thesis-driven history of the Freedom Rides, consider David Niven's The Politics of Injustice: The Kennedys, the Freedom Rides, and the Electoral Consequences of a Moral Compromise. Freedom Riders will find avid readership among patrons of academic collections.-Jim Hahn, Harper Coll. Lib., Palatine, IL Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780199754311
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 3/11/2011
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 151,546
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Raymond Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History and co-director of the Florida Studies Program at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. A graduate of Princeton and Brandeis, he is the author of two prize-winning books and numerous articles on race, civil rights, and regional culture.

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  • Posted May 16, 2011

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    Inspiring stories of courage

    I was truly inspired by the the courage and dedication of the Freddom Rideers. The "riders" put their lives on the line for the cause of freedom. They also showed the world that injustice could be challenged by non violence. They withstood verbal intimidatio and physical attacks. Many were almost killed. But by holding firm to their beliefs of non vilence and justice they showed the world that evil could be succesfully challenged by non viollence.

    What I liked best about this story is that this was an intigrated group and people from all walks of life can come together and fight for a common cause.

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  • Posted May 5, 2011

    truly inspiring

    I was blown away by the stories this book tells. It is very hard to believe that they did this and put an end to segargation. I look up to these people and to know their stories is all the better. Buy this book, u won't regret it

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 19, 2008

    Required Reading

    Arsenault has written an extremely detailed and researched account of the events surrounding the Freedom Riders in May 1961 through the end of that year. His narrative is gripping as he takes us through the gut-wrenching episodes of each of the earlier rides that culminated in the firstormed bus in Anniston and the violence of Bull Connors in Birmingham. Most outstanding is his chronological order of events that gives us details of the moment-by-moment happenings, but also of the subsequent complex legal proceedings that follow. Although tedious in their specifics, each of the riders' experiences are nonetheless compelling and revealing on so many levels. He exposes the hypocrisy of the white supremicists involved as well as the internal foibles that menanced the leadership of the Civil Rights Activists. He provides detailed data on each harrowing event of attempted integration and crystal views of the triumphs and shortcomings of men such as Martin Luther King Jr., and Bobby Kennedy. Many who read this book may end up questioning their own beliefs on the charismatic John Kennedy and the iconic Martin Luther - but for sure everyone will be outraged at the stark ignorance and blunt racism of those defenders of Southern segregation. From this book I came to see the courage and incredible determination of a large group of young black and white men and woman who represented the best of what America should be. It is a wonder that so many of my generation completely ignored or were just unaware or uncaring of what great sacrifices were being made in the name of freedom. This book should be required reading for every college freshman in the nation. R. Marchesani

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  • Posted May 24, 2011

    A good.book.

    This is a good book to read with ur family. Its a good teachin for the kids to learn.

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