TY  - BOOK
AU  - Catsam,Derek Charles
TI  - Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides
T2  - eBooks on Demand
SN  - 9780813173108
AV  - E185.61 .C295 2009 
U1  - 323.1196323.1196073 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
KW  - African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Civil rights demonstrations -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Freedom Rides, 1961
KW  - Segregation in transportation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; 1. ""We Challenged Jim Crow""; 2. Erasing the Badge of Inferiority; 3. ""The Last Supper""; 4. ""Hallelujah, I'm a Travelin'!""; 5. The Carolinas; 6. ""Blazing Hell""; 7. The Magic City; 8. ""I'm Riding the Front Seat to Montgomery This Time""; 9. ""We've Come Too Far to Turn Back""; 10. Mississippi; 11. Jailed In; 12. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
N2  - 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. In Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, Derek Catsam 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 nati
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