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Arthur Ashe - A Life by Raymond Arsenault
Category: Biography
The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe-the Jackie Robinson of men's tennis-a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual. Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943, by the age o ...Show more
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault
Category: History | Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
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 South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights movement, yet a fu ...Show more
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement. In this new ...Show more
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