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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,
“... at the movement’s heart, and the troubling persistence of racial inequality in modern America. Raymond Arsenault’s compelling history of one of the most important battles of the struggle focuses on eight months in 1961 – a moment when Jim Crow seemed to be as entrenched as ever. In the five years following Montgomery, the civil rights movement ... ”