Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison

by Carol Ruth Silver

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Winner of the 2014 Eudora Welty Prize

Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next forty days in Mississippi jail cells, including the Maximum-Security Unit at the infamous Parchman Prison Farm. She chronicled the events and her experiences on hidden scraps of paper which amazingly she was able to smuggle out. These raw written...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617038873
• ISBN13: 9781617038877
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"