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Autobiography of a Freedom Rider

My Life as a Foot Soldier for Civil Rights

by Thomas M. Armstrong; Natalie R. Bell

Synopsis

In the Segregated Deep South, When Lynching and Klansmen and Jim Crow laws ruled, there stood a line of foot soldiers ready to sacrifice their lives for the right to vote, to enter rooms marked 'White Only,' and to live with simple dignity. They were called Freedom Riders, and Thomas M. Armstrong was one of them. This is his story. Autobiography of a Freedom Rider details Armstrong's burning need to create social change for his fellow black citizens. This richly woven memoir, which traces back to his great-grandparents as freed slaves, examines the history of the Civil Rights Movement, the devastating personal repercussions Armstrong endured for being a champion of those rights, the sweet taste of progressive advancement in the past fifty years, and a look ahead at the work still to be done.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2011
ISBN-13 9780757316036
ISBN-10 0757316034
Class Copyright
Publisher Health Communications Incorporated
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY;POLITICAL SCIENCE;SOCIAL SCIENCE
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 216
Shelf No. KH387