Freedom's main line
Subtitle: the journey of reconciliation and the freedom rides
By: Derek Charles Catsam.
Series: Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780813125114
Subjects: Freedom Rides, 1961; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights demonstrations -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Segregation in transportation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Description: "In Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, author Derek Charles Catsam shows that courtrooms, classrooms, and cemeteries were not the only front lines in African Americans' prolonged struggle for basic civil rights. Buses, trains, and other modes of public transportation provided the perfect means for civil rights activists to protest the second-class citizenship of African Americans, bringing the reality of the violence of segregation into the consciousness of America and the world." "Freedom's Main Line argues that the Freedom Rides, a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, were a logical, natural evolution of such earlier efforts as the Journey of Reconciliation, their organizers following models provided by previous challenges to segregation and relying on the principles of nonviolence so common in the larger movement. The impact of the Freedom Rides, however, was unprecedented, fixing the issue of civil rights in the national attention. Later activists were often dubbed Freedom Riders even if they never set foot on a bus."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.