Breach of Peace: A look back at Freedom Riders
Each photograph contained just the most pertinent information: Police department. Booking number. Date of arrest. But magazine editor Eric Etheridge felt a hint of something more embedded in the black-and-white mug shots of the men and women who became known as Mississippi's "Freedom Riders." Read more about his new book, which examines the stories of the Freedom Riders from the 1961 protests and how they feel about that historic event today.
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BREACH OF PEACE
During the 1960s, the "Freedom Riders" risked life, limb and jail to travel through the American South and strike a blow for civil rights. A new book, "Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders," updates the activists' stories. "In high school, we rode city buses to school, and one day my friends and I threw the 'colored' sign out of the window.... I was kind of used to pushing back, used to not stepping to the side," Catherine Burks-Brooks recalled in the book. Her booking photo is at left, a current portrait is at right.
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