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.
