One woman's harrowing, unforgettable account from the nadir of Jim Crow Mississippi

1965 bus trip to protest discrimination in NSW country towns.

Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next fort

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans - black and white, male and female - converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge the state segre

They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American S