Raymond Arsenault

Few moments in Civil Rights history are as important as the morning of Sunday April 9, 1939 when Marian Anderson sang before a throng of thousands lined up along the Mall by the Lincoln Memorial. She had been banned from the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall because she was black. When Eleanor Roosevelt, who resigned...

1961 and the Struggle for Racial JusticeHere is the definitive account of a dramatic and indeed pivotal moment in American history, a critical episode that transformed the civil rights movement in the early 1960s.    Raymond Arsenault offers a meticulously researched and grippingly written account of the Freedom Rides, one of the...

1961 and the Struggle for Racial JusticeThe 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...

1961 and the Struggle for Racial JusticeHere is the definitive account of a dramatic and indeed pivotal moment in American history, a critical episode that transformed the civil rights movement in the early 1960s.    Raymond Arsenault offers a meticulously researched and grippingly written account of the Freedom Rides, one of the...