Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders by Roger Wilkins, Diane McWhorter, Eric Etheridge

Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders

Roger Wilkins, Diane McWhorter, Eric Etheridge

239 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
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In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South...

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