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"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.
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African Americans, Civil rights, Civil rights demonstrations, Freedom Rides, 1961, History, Race relations, Segregation, Segregation in transportation, United states, race relations, African americans, civil rights, Civil rights movements, united statesPlaces
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Freedom's main line: the journey of reconciliation and the freedom rides
2008, University Press of Kentucky
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0813125111 9780813125114
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