Autobiography of a Freedom Rider: My Life as a Foot Soldier for

ISBN: 0757316034 EAN: 9780757316036

Publisher: Health Communications (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 14.95 US -

Binding: Paperback

Pub Date: May 02, 2011

Publisher Marketing: 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.