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Thomas Sugrue: Civil Rights v. Black Power, 5 October 2006
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
by Raymond Arsenault.
Oxford, 690 pp., £19.99, March 2006,0 19 513674 8 Show More
by Raymond Arsenault.
Oxford, 690 pp., £19.99, March 2006,
“... Not surprisingly, a number of the Freedom Riders later became important advocates of black power. William Worthy and Conrad Lynn – two of the members of the original Journey of Reconciliation – created the all-black Freedom Now Party less than two years after the Rides ended. By 1965, CORE had jettisoned its integrationism for an emphasis on black-led ... ”