Freedom Rider Diary – Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison Silver Arsenault

Freedom Rider Diary\nby Carol Ruth Silver\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Carol Ruth Silver\nTitle: Freedom Rider Diary\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Biography: general\nPublisher: MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781496813145\nISBN-10: 1496813146\nRRP: \u00A320.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nArrested 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 scraps she fashioned into a manuscript.